Genetic factors regulating lung vasculature and immune cell functions associate with resistance to pneumococcal infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Jonczyk, Magda S ^a   Simon, Michelle ^b   Kumar, Saumya ^b   Fernandes, Vitor E ^a   Sylvius, Nicolas ^a   Mallon, Ann Marie ^b   Denny, Paul ^b,c   Andrew, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Harwell   (United Kingdom)

^c Gene Effects   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG FIBROBLAST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; METABOLISM; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED CBA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84897090368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089831     Document Type: Article

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