"Disease Resistance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The capacity of an organism to defend itself against pathological processes or the agents of those processes. This most often involves innate immunity whereby the organism responds to pathogens in a generic way. The term disease resistance is used most frequently when referring to plants.
| Descriptor ID |
D060467
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.291.671 G12.450.564.250 G12.450.800.250 G15.630.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Disease Resistance- Disease Resistance
- Disease Resistances
- Resistances, Disease
- Resistance, Disease
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Disease Resistance" by people in Profiles.
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Melo-Silva CR, Alves-Peixoto P, Heath N, Tang L, Montoya B, Knudson CJ, Stotesbury C, Ferez M, Wong E, Sigal LJ. Resistance to lethal ectromelia virus infection requires Type I interferon receptor in natural killer cells and monocytes but not in adaptive immune or parenchymal cells. PLoS Pathog. 2021 05; 17(5):e1009593.
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Kumar G, Dasgupta I. The titers of rice tungro bacilliform virus dictate the expression levels of genes related to cell wall dynamics in rice plants affected by tungro disease. Arch Virol. 2021 May; 166(5):1325-1336.
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Sigal LJ. The Pathogenesis and Immunobiology of Mousepox. Adv Immunol. 2016; 129:251-76.
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Brose MS, Smit J, Capdevila J, Elisei R, Nutting C, Pitoia F, Robinson B, Schlumberger M, Shong YK, Takami H. Regional approaches to the management of patients with advanced, radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2012 Sep; 12(9):1137-47.
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Fang R, Tsuchiya K, Kawamura I, Shen Y, Hara H, Sakai S, Yamamoto T, Fernandes-Alnemri T, Yang R, Hernandez-Cuellar E, Dewamitta SR, Xu Y, Qu H, Alnemri ES, Mitsuyama M. Critical roles of ASC inflammasomes in caspase-1 activation and host innate resistance to Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. J Immunol. 2011 Nov 1; 187(9):4890-9.