Toll-like receptor 7 mitigates lethal West Nile encephalitis via interleukin 23-dependent immune cell infiltration and homing.

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Published in Immunity on February 05, 2009

Authors

Terrence Town1, Fengwei Bai, Tian Wang, Amber T Kaplan, Feng Qian, Ruth R Montgomery, John F Anderson, Richard A Flavell, Erol Fikrig

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

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