Alveolar Epithelial Cells in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection: Active Players or Innocent Bystanders?

Journal of Innate Immunity

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-14

  Scordo, Julia M ^a   Knoell, Daren L ^b,c   Torrelles, Jordi B ^a,c  

^a Division of Health Services Research   (United States)

^b Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolar epithelial cell; Innate immunity; Lung environment; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 8; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CELL DEATH; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUBERCULOSIS; APOPTOSIS; DENDRITIC CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALVEOLAR EPITHELIAL CELLS; APOPTOSIS; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84955635778     PISSN: 1662811X     EISSN: 16628128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000439275     Document Type: Review

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