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SUBMITTER: Gay G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4995087 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gay Gabrielle G Braun Laurence L Brenier-Pinchart Marie-Pierre MP Vollaire Julien J Josserand Véronique V Bertini Rose-Laurence RL Varesano Aurélie A Touquet Bastien B De Bock Pieter-Jan PJ Coute Yohann Y Tardieux Isabelle I Bougdour Alexandre A Hakimi Mohamed-Ali MA
The Journal of experimental medicine 20160808 9
An early hallmark of Toxoplasma gondii infection is the rapid control of the parasite population by a potent multifaceted innate immune response that engages resident and homing immune cells along with pro- and counter-inflammatory cytokines. In this context, IFN-γ activates a variety of T. gondii-targeting activities in immune and nonimmune cells but can also contribute to host immune pathology. T. gondii has evolved mechanisms to timely counteract the host IFN-γ defenses by interfering with th ...[more]