ReviewImmunologic research2000
Principles of homeostasis in governing virus activation and latency.
Review in Immunologic research, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Coexistence of virome-encoded health-associated genes and pathogenic genes in global habitats.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Phylogenetic analysis of microbial CP-lyase cluster genes for bioremediation of phosphonate.AMB Express · 2025Article
- Coevolution of hytrosaviruses and host immune responses.BMC microbiology · 2018Review
- The ins and outs of eukaryotic viruses: Knowledge base and ontology of a viral infection.PloS one · 2017Article
- Infection homeostasis: implications for therapeutic and immune programming of metabolism in controlling infection.Medical microbiology and immunology · 2015Review
- Viral enhancer mimicry of host innate-immune promoters.PLoS pathogens · 2014Review
- Dynamics of recurrent viral infection.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2006Article
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Abstract
The goal of our work is to understand, from the molecular to the organismal level, the principles that drive and sustain lifelong infection by viruses. These infectious agents live in a dynamic equilibrium (homeostasis) with their hosts in which both immune and nonimmune pathways contribute to viral homeostasis. Disruption of these pathways can have dramatic consequences on pathogenesis. Immune responses to infection provide a vital countermeasure by the host but are nonsterilizing. They effect an essential and primary control mechanism for viral growth. Essential nonimmune pathways for effecting control of a viral life cycle relate to the obligate dependency of the virus on its host. For these reasons, we view infections as a highly dynamic interplay that takes place between the pathogen and host. This, in many cases, leads to the establishment of an incurable lifelong infection that remains benign but can become life threatening once key homeostatic pathways are disrupted. We discuss these issues in the context of our studies using cytomegalovirus as a clinically relevant pathogen.
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