Sang, Yongming; Rowland, Raymond R. R.; Blecha, Frank(2011)
Innate immunity provides frontline antiviral protection and bridges adaptive immunity against virus infections. However, viruses can evade innate immune surveillance potentially causing chronic infections that may lead to ...
Groenen, Martien A. M.; Archibald, Alan L.; Uenishi, Hirohide; Tuggle, Christopher K.; Takeuchi, Yasuhiro; Rothschild, Max F.; Rogel-Gaillard, Claire; Blecha, Frank; Sang, Yongming(2012)
For 10,000 years pigs and humans have shared a close and complex relationship. From domestication to modern breeding practices, humans have shaped the genomes of domestic pigs. Here we present the assembly and analysis of ...
Sang, Yongming; Shi, Jishu; Sang, Wenjing; Rowland, Raymond R. R.; Blecha, Frank(2012)
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) can subvert early innate immunity, which leads to ineffective antimicrobial responses. Overcoming immune subversion is critical for developing vaccines and other ...
Olsen, Rachel L.; Echtenkamp, Frank; Cheranova, Dilyara; Deng, Wanyin; Finlay, B. Brett; Hardwidge, Philip R.(2013)
The human pathogens enterohemorrhagic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EHEC and EPEC), as well as the mouse pathogen Citrobacter rodentium encode type III secretion system (T3SS) effector proteins to promote their ...
Pondugula, Satyanarayana R.; Kampalli, Suresh B.; Wu, Tao; De Lisle, Robert C.; Raveendran, Nithya N.; Harbidge, Donald G.; Marcus, Daniel C.(2013)
Background: The vestibular system controls the ion composition of its luminal fluid through several epithelial cell transport mechanisms under hormonal regulation. The semicircular canal duct (SCCD) epithelium has been ...