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Surface Expression and Genetic Variants of Toll-like Receptor 2 in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients.
The Egyptian journal of immunology - 1 Jan 2016
Aboelazm Abeer A, Abd El-Glil Reem R, Elmahdy Mohamed
Abstract excerpt
Innate immunity plays an important role in the host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Toll-like receptor-2 (TLR2) is the main receptor and one of central components in initiation of innate immunity against M. tuberculosis. The study aimed to evaluate TLR2 surface expression on peripheral blood monocytes and study its association with variants in TLR2 597T/C single nucleotide...
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