Malarial pigment hemozoin and the innate inflammatory response

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Olivier, Martin ^a   Van Den Ham, Kristin ^a   Shio, Marina Tiemi ^a   Kassa, Fikregabrail Aberra ^a   Fougeray, Sophie ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hemozoin; Inflammasome; Macrophages; Malaria; Signaling

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR2; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CXCL2 CHEMOKINE; HEMOZOIN; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

DETOXIFICATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MALARIA; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84895540760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00025     Document Type: Review

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