Neisseria gonorrhoeae survives within and modulates apoptosis and inflammatory cytokine production of human macrophages

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 546-560

  Château, Alice ^a   Seifert, H Steven ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytokines; Gonorrhoea; Macrophages; Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CYTOKINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA FRAGMENTATION ASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOLYSOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SURVIVAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; U937 CELL LINE; WESTERN BLOTTING; CELL CULTURE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 84961197259     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12529     Document Type: Article

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