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T-bet deficiency facilitates airway colonization by Mycoplasma pulmonis in a murine model of asthma.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Aug 2006
Bakshi Chandra Shekhar, Malik Meenakshi, Carrico Pauline M, Sellati Timothy J
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Epidemiological and clinical evidence suggest a correlation between asthma and infection with atypical bacterial respiratory pathogens. However, the cellular and molecular underpinnings of this correlation remain unclear. Using the T-bet-deficient (T-bet(-/-)) murine model of asthma and the natural murine pathogen Mycoplasma pulmonis, we provide a mechanistic explanation for this correlation. In this study, we...
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