Short-term starvation of immune deficient Drosophila improves survival to gram-negative bacterial infections.

BACKGROUND:Primary immunodeficiencies are inborn errors of immunity that lead to life threatening conditions. These predispositions describe human immunity in natura and highlight the important function of components of the Toll-IL-1- receptor-nuclear factor kappa B (TIR-NF-kappaB) pathway. Since th...

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Main Authors: Anthony E Brown, Janina Baumbach, Peter E Cook, Petros Ligoxygakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2637427?pdf=render