Application | Comment | Organism |
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medicine | induction of sterile hyperinflammation by injection of fungal cell wall preparations in chronic granulomatous disease mouse model. Preparations from Aspergillus fumigatus, Candida albicans, or Saccharomyces cerevisiae cause prolonged and severe skin inflammation, but not preparations from bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aerginosa, or Escherichia coli. Components most responsible for the inflammatory effect are branched fungal beta-glucans | Mus musculus |
Protein Variants | Comment | Organism |
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additional information | NOX2-deficient mice serve as chronic granulomatous disease mouse model | Mus musculus |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Mus musculus | - |
phagocyte NADPH oxidase-deficient mice | - |