Ectopic expression of human thymosin β4 confers resistance to Legionella pneumophila during pulmonary and systemic infection in mice

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Anti-Inflammatory Agents 10%
• Bacterial Load 5%
• Bone and Bones 5%
• Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid 5%
• Ectopic Gene Expression 63%
• Hyalin 5%
• Infections 27%
• Interleukin-1beta 9%
• Legionella pneumophila 75%
• Lung 30%
• Macrophages 13%
• Neutrophil Infiltration 5%
• Sepsis 7%
• Thymosin 84%
• thymosin beta(4) 100%
• Toll-Like Receptors 5%
• Transgenic Mice 25%
• Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha 6%

Agriculture & Biology

• abscess 6%
• anti-inflammatory activity 10%
• bacterial infections 5%
• bones 8%
• genetically modified organisms 25%
• infection 30%
• interleukin-1 11%
• Legionella pneumophila 74%
• lungs 45%
• macrophages 17%
• mice 33%
• pneumonia 5%
• sepsis (infection) 13%
• thymosin 89%
• Toll-like receptors 6%
• tumor necrosis factor-alpha 10%