Browsing Microbiology and Immunology by Author "Martinson, David A."
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The iron response regulator Irr controls iron homoeostasis in Brucella
Martinson, David A. (East Carolina University, 2014)Members of the genus Brucella are small, Gram-negative intracellular bacterial pathogens that are capable of infecting a wide range of mammalian hosts including humans. Brucella primarily reside inside of host macrophages. ... -
Neuroantigen-specific, tolerogenic vaccines: GM-CSF is a fusion partner that facilitates tolerance rather than immunity to dominant self-epitopes of myelin in murine models of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE)
Abbott, Derek J.; Blanchfield, J. Lori; Martinson, David A.; Russell, Sean C.; Taslim, Najla; Curtis II, Alan Dale; Mannie, Mark D. (2011)Background Vaccination strategies that elicit antigen-specific tolerance are needed as therapies for autoimmune disease. This study focused on whether cytokine-neuroantigen (NAg) fusion proteins could inhibit disease ...