Lipopolysaccharide and pneumococcal cell
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Ralf R. Schumann; Dagmar Pfeil; Dorette Freyer; Wolf Buerger; Norbert Lamping; C
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Cell wall compounds of gram-positive bacteria are capable of inducing the biosynthesis of proinflammatory cytokines in CNS cells in a similar way as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of gram-negative bacteria does. Astrocytes, which lack the CD14 LPS receptor, have also been shown to respond to LPS-stimulati