Listeria monocytogenes and the inflammasome: From cytosolic bacteriolysis to tumor immunotherapy

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 397, Issue , 2016, Pages 133-160

  Theisen, Erin ^a   Sauer, John Demian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; AIM2 PROTEIN; ASC PROTEIN; CASPASE 11; CRYOPYRIN; CYTOKINE; FLAGELLIN; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; NLRC4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLYSIS; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CYCLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOSOL; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLYSIS; CYTOSOL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFLAMMASOMES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84982701870     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41171-2_7     Document Type: Article

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