Harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) PMN and monocytes release extracellular traps to capture the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 106-115

  Reichel, Maria ^a   Muñoz Caro, Tamara ^a   Sanchez Contreras, Guillermo ^b   Rubio García, Ana ^b   Magdowski, Gerd ^a   Gärtner, Ulrich ^a   Taubert, Anja ^a   Hermosilla, Carlos ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extracellular traps; Monocytes; Neutrophils; Phoca vitulina; Seal; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HISTONE; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PEROXIDASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR TRAP; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HARBOUR SEAL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEAL; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PHOCA VITULINA; PINNIPEDIA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; EXTRACELLULAR TRAPS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MONOCYTES; NADPH OXIDASE; NEUTROPHILS; PEROXIDASE; PHOCA; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 84923266959     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: 18790089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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