Immune response to human metapneumovirus infection: What we have learned from the mouse model

Pathogens

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 682-696

  Cheemarla, Nagarjuna R ^a   Guerrero Plata, Antonieta ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human metapneumovirus; Immune responses; Mouse model; Paramyxovirus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; EOTAXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 3; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 7; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MELANOMA DIFFERENTIATION ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 5; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; RANTES; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84990830253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20760817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens4030682     Document Type: Review

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