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A Macrophage Response to Mycobacterium leprae Phenolic Glycolipid Initiates Nerve Damage in Leprosy

Mycobacterium leprae causes leprosy and is unique among mycobacterial diseases in producing peripheral neuropathy. This debilitating morbidity is attributed to axon demyelination resulting from direct interaction of the M. leprae-specific phenolic glycolipid 1 (PGL-1) with myelinating glia and their...

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Autores principales: Madigan, Cressida A., Cambier, C.J., Kelly-Scumpia, Kindra M., Scumpia, Philip O., Cheng, Tan-Yun, Zailaa, Joseph, Bloom, Barry R., Moody, D. Branch, Smale, Stephen T., Sagasti, Alvaro, Modlin, Robert L., Ramakrishnan, Lalita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cell Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28841420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.030