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SUBMITTER: Qazi KR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1273840 | biostudies-other | 2005 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Qazi Khaleda Rahman KR Qazi Mousumi Rahman MR Julián Esther E Singh Mahavir M Abedi-Valugerdi Manuchehr M Fernández Carmen C
Infection and immunity 20051101 11
During stress conditions, such as infection, the synthesis of heat shock proteins (HSPs) in microorganisms is upregulated. Since a high degree of homology exists within each HSP family, we postulated that exposure to microorganisms could prime the immune system for evolutionarily diverse HSPs. We tested this hypothesis by priming mice with three microorganisms, namely, Mycobacterium bovis BCG, Mycobacterium vaccae, and Chlamydia pneumoniae. After this, mice received a dose of the various HSPs. W ...[more]