Immune responses to tuberculosis

Immune responses to tuberculosis

Authors	N.P. Juffermans
Supervisors	S.J.H. van Deventer P. Speelman
Cosupervisors	T. van der Poll A. Verbon
Award date	16-06-2000
ISBN	9090138188 9789090138183
Number of pages	238
Publisher	Amsterdam: Thela Thesis
Organisations	Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA)
Document type	PhD thesis
Note	Research conducted at: CLDO en Infectieziekten
Language	English
Downloads	Thesis Cover Titlepage Contents Chapter 1 General Introduction and Outline of the thesis Chapter 2 Characteristics of 100 patients with tuberculosis treated in the Academic Medical Center Chapter 3 Mycobacterium xenopi in HIV-infected patients: an emerging pathogen Chapter 4 Tumor Necrosis Factor and Interleukin-1 inhibitors as markers of disease activity of tuberculosis Chapter 5 Serum concentrations of cytokines in patients with active tuberculosis (TB) and after treatment Chapter 6 Serum Concentrations of Lipopolysaccharide Activity-Modulating Proteins during Tuberculosis Chapter 7 Elevated Serum Concentrations of Chemokines in HIV-seropositive and HIV -seronegative Patients with Tuberculosis. A possible Role for Mycobacterial Lipoarabinomannan Chapter 9 Expression of the chemokine receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 on granulocytes in human endotoxemia and tuberculosis. Involvement of the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway Chapter 10 Expression of urokinase plasminogen activator receptor and CD11b during tuberculosis Chapter 11 Patients with active tuberculosis have an increased expression of HIV coreceptors CXCR4 and CCR5 on CD4 T cells Chapter 12 Upregulation of HIV coreceptors CXCR4 and CCR5 on CD4+ T cells during human endotoxemia and after stimulation with (myco)bacterial antigens. The role of cytokines Chapter 13 Thalidomide Suppresses Upregulation of HIV coreceptors CXCR4 and CCR5 on CD4 T cells in Humans Chapter 14 Thalidomide Inhibits Granulocyte Responses in Healthy Humans after ex vivo stimulation with bacterial antigens Chapter 15 A single oral dose of Thalidomide enhances the capacity of lymphocytes to secrete interferon- in healthy humans Chapter 16 CpG oligodeoxynucleotides induce a protective Th1 response during murine tuberculosis by an interferon- dependent mechanism Chapter 17 Interleukin-1 Signaling is Essential for Host Defense during Murine Pulmonary Tuberculosis Chapter 18 IL-18 deficient mice are protected from dissemination of pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection Chapter 19 Alveolar macrophage apoptosis exerts protective effects in pulmonary tuberculosis in mice Chapter 20 Summary Dankwoord Stellingen Cover
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