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...

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Main Authors: Brown, A, Baumbach, J, Cook, P, Ligoxygakis, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2009