Inflammasome Sensor NLRP1 Controls Rat Macrophage Susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Cirelli, Kimberly M ^a   Gorfu, Gezahegn ^b   Hassan, Musa A ^a   Printz, Morton ^c   Crown, Devorah ^b   Leppla, Stephen H ^b   Grigg, Michael E ^b   Saeij, Jeroen P J ^a   Moayeri, Mahtab ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLAST; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MACROPHAGE; NLRP1 GENE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INFLAMMASOMES; MACROPHAGES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84897430736     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003927     Document Type: Article

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