Immune modulation by bacterial outer membrane vesicles

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 375-387

  Kaparakis Liaskos, Maria ^a   Ferrero, Richard L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; CYTOKINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; COMMENSAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXOSOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIPID RAFT; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNOVIOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENIC MODULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENIC MODULATION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84929966331     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3837     Document Type: Review

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