Distinct innate immune phagocyte responses to aspergillus fumigatus conidia and hyphae in zebrafish larvae

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1266-1277

  Knox, Benjamin P ^a   Deng, Qing ^a,c   Rood, Mary ^a   Eickhoff, Jens C ^b   Keller, Nancy P ^a   Huttenlocher, Anna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DANIO RERIO;

ANIMAL; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LARVA; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; HYPHAE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LARVA; MACROPHAGES; PHAGOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPORES, FUNGAL; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84907462222     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00080-14     Document Type: Article

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