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Expression of innate immune complement regulators on brain epithelial cells during human bacterial meningitis

BACKGROUND: In meningitis, the cerebrospinal fluid contains high levels of innate immune molecules (e.g. complement) which are essential to ward off the infectious challenge and to promote the infiltration of phagocytes (neutrophils, monocytes). However, epithelial cells of either the ependymal laye...

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Autores principales: Canova, Cecile, Neal, Jim W, Gasque, Philippe
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1574292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16948860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-2094-3-22