Thyroid Hormone Enhances Nitric Oxide-Mediated Bacterial Clearance and Promotes Survival after Meningococcal Infection

• Yao Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Chen, Mikael Sjölinder

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Mikael Sjölinder ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yao Chen, Mikael Sjölinder

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Xiao Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Georg Altenbacher,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Matthias Hagner,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Pernilla Berglund,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Yumin Gao,

  Current address: School of Public Health, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, People’s Republic of China

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ting Lu,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ann-Beth Jonsson,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Hong Sjölinder

  * E-mail: hong.sjolinder@gmt.su.se

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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