| Literature DB >> 21909344 |
Cherie T Ng1, Brian M Sullivan, Michael B A Oldstone.
Abstract
Viruses must modulate or suppress their host's immune system in order to persist. In this review, we discuss the means in which the lympocytic choriomenengitis virus targets and infects an essential component of the immune system, the dendritic cell, essential to bridging the innate and adaptive immune response. Infection of these cells results in pleiotropic effects that serve to deregulate the host immune response.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21909344 PMCID: PMC3167161 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2011.05.006
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Virol ISSN: 1879-6257 Impact factor: 7.090