Chronic spinal cord injury attenuates influenza virus-specific antiviral immunity.
Bracchi-Ricard V, Zha J, Smith A, Lopez-Rodriguez DM, Bethea JR, Andreansky S.
Bracchi-Ricard V, et al. Among authors: zha j.
J Neuroinflammation. 2016 May 31;13(1):125. doi: 10.1186/s12974-016-0574-y.
J Neuroinflammation. 2016.
PMID: 27245318
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BACKGROUND: Individuals suffering from spinal cord injury (SCI) are at higher risk for respiratory-related viral infections such as influenza. In a previous study (Zha et al., J Neuroinflammation 11:65, 2014), we demonstrated that chronic spinal cord injury caused i …
BACKGROUND: Individuals suffering from spinal cord injury (SCI) are at higher risk for respiratory-related viral infections such as influenz …