2009
Innate Immune Responses to West Nile Virus Infection
Arjona A, Fikrig E. Innate Immune Responses to West Nile Virus Infection. Emerging Infectious Diseases Of The 21st Century 2009, 169-187. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-79840-0_8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWest Nile virus infectionPathogen recognition receptorsImmune cellsVirus infectionImmune responseBlood-brain barrier permeabilityInnate immune cellsAdaptive immune responsesInnate immune mechanismsInnate immune responseInnate antiviral immunityWNV neuroinvasionProinflammatory cytokinesCostimulatory moleculesImmune mechanismsBarrier permeabilityAntiviral immunityWNV infectionInnate responseAntiviral stateInfectionCytokinesDetrimental effectsCurrent understandingImmunopathogenesis
1997
B7-1 and B7-2 monoclonal antibodies modulate the severity of murine Lyme arthritis
Anguita J, Roth R, Samanta S, Gee RJ, Barthold SW, Mamula M, Fikrig E. B7-1 and B7-2 monoclonal antibodies modulate the severity of murine Lyme arthritis. Infection And Immunity 1997, 65: 3037-3041. PMID: 9234751, PMCID: PMC175428, DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.8.3037-3041.1997.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLyme arthritisMurine Lyme arthritisB7-1Monoclonal antibodiesCostimulatory moleculesB7-2Immune responseInterleukin-4C3H/HeN miceB7-2 costimulatory moleculesExperimental Lyme arthritisB7-2 expressionMurine Lyme borreliosisDegree of arthritisBorrelia burgdorferi infectionSplenocyte proliferative responseDose-dependent increaseHost immune responseT cell differentiationIL-10Antibody levelsIL-12HeN miceBurgdorferi infectionProliferative response