Cytokines and chemokines in cerebral malaria pathogenesis

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue JUL, 2017, Pages

  Dunst, Josefine ^a,b,c   Kamena, Faustin ^a,b,c   Matuschewski, Kai ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Cerebral malaria; Chemokines; Cytokines; Endothelial activation; Malaria; Neuroinflammation; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CEREBRAL MALARIA; ENDOTHELIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MICROVASCULATURE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; REVIEW; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PERMEABILITY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LEUKOCYTES; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MICE; PERMEABILITY; PLASMODIUM;

EID: 85027568558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00324     Document Type: Review

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