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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2006

Lymphocytes are detrimental during the early innate immune response against Listeria monocytogenes.

Javier A Carrero, Boris Calderon, Emil R Unanue

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers.

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81citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

81 citing papers in PubMed, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Javier A CarreroDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Boris Calderon
Emil R Unanue
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOGENETICST32AI007163 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Kenneth M Murphy, Kodi S Ravichandran · 1985 to 2026
$14.8M
IMMUNITY TO INTRACELLULAR PATHOGENSR01AI062832 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI UNANUE, EMIL RAPHAEL · 2005 to 2014
$3.7M
NIAID NIH HHS 1R01AI062832NIAID NIH HHS 5T32AI007163NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI062832NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007163
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mice deficient in lymphocytes are more resistant than normal mice to Listeria monocytogenes infection during the early innate immune response. This paradox remains unresolved: lymphocytes are required for sterilizing immunity, but their presence during the early stage of the infection is not an asset and may even be detrimental. We found that lymphocyte-deficient mice, which showed limited apoptosis in infected organs, were resistant during the first four days of infection but became susceptible when engrafted with lymphocytes. Engraftment with lymphocytes from type I interferon receptor-deficient (IFN-alphabetaR(-/-)) mice, which had reduced apoptosis, did not confer increased susceptibility to infection, even when the phagocytes were IFN-alphabetaR(+/+). The attenuation of innate immunity was due, in part, to the production of the antiinflammatory cytokine interleukin 10 by phagocytic cells after the apoptotic phase of the infection. Thus, immunodeficient mice were more resistant relative to normal mice because the latter went through a stage of lymphocyte apoptosis that was detrimental to the innate immune response. This is an example of a bacterial pathogen creating a cascade of events that leads to a permissive infective niche early during infection.

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateAnimalsDNA-Binding ProteinsGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseInterferon Type IInterleukin-10Listeria monocytogenesListeriosisLiverLymphocyte SubsetsLymphopeniaMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMice, SCIDSpleenDNA-Binding ProteinsInterferon Type IInterleukin-10Rag2 protein, mouse

Identifiers

PMID16549598
PMCPMC2118284
OpenAlexW2170002068

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