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Cellular and systemic effects of anthrax lethal toxin and edema toxin

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The inflammasome: a caspase-1-activation platform that regulates immune responses and disease pathogenesis

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Capillary morphogenesis protein-2 is the major receptor mediating lethality of anthrax toxin in vivo

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Anakinra, a Recombinant Human Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist, Inhibits Apoptosis in Experimental Acute Myocardial Infarction

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Bacillus anthracis spores and lethal toxin induce IL-1β via functionally distinct signaling pathways

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Role of Anthrax Toxins in Dissemination, Disease Progression, and Induction of Protective Adaptive Immunity in the Mouse Aerosol Challenge Model

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Contribution of IL-1 to resistance to Streptococcus pneumoniae infection

(2008) D. Kafka et al.   INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY

Superficial exudates of neutrophils prevent invasion of Bacillus anthracis bacilli into abraded skin of resistant mice

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Early interactions between fully virulent Bacillus anthracis and macrophages that influence the balance between spore clearance and development of a lethal infection

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