TY - JOUR AU - Teruya, Hiromitsu AU - Higa, Futoshi AU - Akamine, Morikazu AU - Ishikawa, Chie AU - Okudaira, Taeko AU - Tomimori, Koh AU - Mukaida, Naofumi AU - Tateyama, Masao AU - Heuner, Klaus AU - Fujita, Jiro AU - Mori, Naoki PY - 2007 DA - 2007/11/22 TI - Mechanisms of Legionella pneumophila-induced interleukin-8 expression in human lung epithelial cells JO - BMC Microbiology SP - 102 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Legionella pneumophila is a facultative intracellular bacterium, capable of replicating within the phagosomes of macrophages and monocytes, but little is known about its interaction with human lung epithelial cells. We investigated the effect of L. pneumophila on the expression of interleukin-8 (IL-8) in human A549 alveolar and NCI-H292 tracheal epithelial cell lines. SN - 1471-2180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-7-102 DO - 10.1186/1471-2180-7-102 ID - Teruya2007 ER -