Spatially distinct neutrophil responses within the inflammatory lesions of pneumonic plague

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Stasulli, Nikolas M ^a   Eichelberger, Kara R ^a   Price, Paul A ^a   Pechous, Roger D ^a   Montgomery, Stephanie A ^a   Parker, Joel S ^b   Goldman, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; YOPM PROTEIN, YERSINIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; LUNG LESION; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIC PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; LUNG; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUTROPHILS; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84946593502     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01530-15     Document Type: Article

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