MicroRNA-146a Provides Feedback Regulation of Lyme Arthritis but Not Carditis during Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lochhead, Robert B ^a   Ma, Ying ^a   Zachary, James F ^b   Baltimore, David ^c   Zhao, Jimmy L ^c   Weis, John H ^a   O'Connell, Ryan M ^a   Weis, Janis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MICRORNA 146A; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 21; RNA 16S; AUTACOID; CXCL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; IL10 PROTEIN, MOUSE; IL1B PROTEIN, MOUSE; MICRORNA; MIRN146 MICRORNA, MOUSE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARDITIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOST RESISTANCE; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INFLAMMATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYOCARDITIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOKINE CXCL1; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; LYME DISEASE; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; MYOCARDITIS; NF-KAPPA B; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TNF RECEPTOR-ASSOCIATED FACTOR 6;

EID: 84903484100     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004212     Document Type: Article

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