Staphylococcus aureus Activates the NLRP3 Inflammasome in Human and Rat Conjunctival Goblet Cells

• Victoria E. McGilligan,

  Affiliations Schepens Eye Research Institute/Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Centre for Molecular Biosciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, N. Ireland

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• Meredith S. Gregory-Ksander,

  Affiliation Schepens Eye Research Institute/Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Dayu Li,

  Affiliation Schepens Eye Research Institute/Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jonathan E. Moore,

  Affiliations Centre for Molecular Biosciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, N. Ireland, Cathedral Eye Clinic, Belfast, N. Ireland

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• Robin R. Hodges,

  Affiliation Schepens Eye Research Institute/Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Michael S. Gilmore,

  Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology and Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Tara C. B. Moore ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tara C. B. Moore, Darlene A. Dartt

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Biosciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, N. Ireland

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• Darlene A. Dartt

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tara C. B. Moore, Darlene A. Dartt

  * E-mail: darlene.dartt@schepens.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Schepens Eye Research Institute/Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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