| Literature DB >> 10366859 |
D R Fitzpatrick1, H Bielefeldt-Ohmann.
Abstract
At the portals of pathogen entry, there are pools of the latent form of a potent cytokine, transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta). Many infections activate these pools and stimulate further TGF-beta expression. As well as potent immunomodulation, activated TGF-beta might have important effects on pathogen entry, replication, persistence, latency and oncogenesis.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10366859 DOI: 10.1016/s0966-842x(99)01498-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Microbiol ISSN: 0966-842X Impact factor: 17.079