Issue 1-3/2009
National Institutes of Health/NIAID special issue
Content (23 Articles)
Amplification mechanisms for the enhancement of antigen-mediated mast cell activation
Alasdair M. Gilfillan, Richard D. Peavy, Dean D. Metcalfe
How human leukocytes track down and destroy pathogens: lessons learned from the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum
Tian Jin, Xuehua Xu, Jun Fang, Nilgun Isik, Jianshe Yan, Joseph A. Brzostowski, Dale Hereld
Eosinophils and their interactions with respiratory virus pathogens
Helene F. Rosenberg, Kimberly D. Dyer, Joseph B. Domachowske
Adaptive immunity to the obligate intracellular pathogen Coxiella burnetii
Jeffrey G. Shannon, Robert A. Heinzen
Innate immunity in the pathogenesis of polytropic retrovirus infection in the central nervous system
Karin E. Peterson, Min Du
Tick-borne flaviviruses: dissecting host immune responses and virus countermeasures
Shelly J. Robertson, Dana N. Mitzel, R. Travis Taylor, Sonja M. Best, Marshall E. Bloom
Redox warfare between airway epithelial cells and Pseudomonas: dual oxidase versus pyocyanin
Balázs Rada, Thomas L. Leto
Endocytosis as a mechanism of regulating natural killer cell function: unique endocytic and trafficking pathway for CD94/NKG2A
Giovanna Peruzzi, Madhan Masilamani, Francisco Borrego, John E. Coligan
Partially corrected X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency: long-term problems and treatment options
Suk See De Ravin, Harry L. Malech
Differential roles for the inositol phosphatase SHIP in the regulation of macrophages and lymphocytes
Wai-Hang Leung, Tatyana Tarasenko, Silvia Bolland
Activation and regulation of Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs) by helminth parasites
Priyanka Goel Venugopal, Thomas B. Nutman, Roshanak Tolouei Semnani
Structure and function of murine cytomegalovirus MHC-I-like molecules: how the virus turned the host defense to its advantage
Janet Mans, Li Zhi, Maria Jamela R. Revilleza, Lee Smith, Alec Redwood, Kannan Natarajan, David H. Margulies