Ticks produce highly selective chemokine binding proteins with antiinflammatory activity
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Ticks produce highly selective chemokine binding proteins with antiinflammatory activity
Bloodsucking parasites such as ticks have evolved a wide variety of immunomodulatory proteins that are secreted in their saliva, allowing them to feed for long periods of time without being detected by the host immune system. One possible strategy used by ticks to evade the host immune response is to produce proteins that selectively bind and neutralize the chemokines that normally recruit cell...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1540-9538,0022-1007
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20072689