Mitochondrial DNA in innate immune responses and inflammatory pathology

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 363-375

  West, A Phillip ^a   Shadel, Gerald S ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYCLIC GMP; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; INFLAMMASOME; INTERFERON; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR AGONIST; ALARMIN;

CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA REPLICATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ALARMINS; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION;

EID: 85017268777     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2017.21     Document Type: Review

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