Type-I interferon responses: From friend to foe in the battle against chronic viral infection

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2016, Pages

  Murira, Armstrong ^a   Lamarre, Alain ^a  

^a INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic viral infection; IFNAR; Immunopathology; Immunoregulation; Type I interferon

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; INTERFERON RECEPTOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT2 PROTEIN;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 85009351462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2016.00609     Document Type: Short Survey

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