Published in Managed Care Business Week, July 19th, 2005
"Mycobacterium tuberculosis can not only neutralize immune effector functions, but also has the ability to modulate host-signaling cascades involved in the development of these responses. The 19-kDa antigen (Rv3763), a lipoprotein of M. tuberculosis, elicits high levels of interleukin (IL)-12 from macrophages in addition to its powerful immunomodulatory properties, leading to suppression of antigen-presentation signaling cascades.
"The present study was aimed at...
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