Chronic Filarial Infection Provides Protection against Bacterial Sepsis by Functionally Reprogramming Macrophages

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-27

  Gondorf, Fabian ^a   Berbudi, Afiat ^a   Buerfent, Benedikt C ^a   Ajendra, Jesuthas ^a   Bloemker, Dominique ^a,b   Specht, Sabine ^a   Schmidt, David ^a   Neumann, Anna Lena ^a   Layland, Laura E ^a   Hoerauf, Achim ^a   Hübner, Marc P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B7 ANTIGEN; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CD11B ANTIGEN; CD40 ANTIGEN; CD86 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; CXCL2 CHEMOKINE; CXCL3 CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GENTAMICIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; I KAPPA B KINASE EPSILON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 5; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; NITRITE; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING 1; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR ADAPTOR MOLECULE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 6; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SEPSIS; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TRANSFER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIXED INFECTION; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVENTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEPSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; METABOLISM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SEPSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MUS; VERMES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84923850288     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004616     Document Type: Article

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