The ability of pneumococci to promote lung disease in the human host depends not only on microbial virulence factors, such as the pore-forming toxin pneumolysin (Witzenrath et al., 2006) and H 2 O 2 ( Regulation of vascular ROS production Upon stimulation by inflammatory mediators such as TNF, otherwise quiescent endothelial cells become activated to produce significantly increased levels of NADPH oxidase-generated ROS ( / mice (Romero et al., 2008
This functional polarity is finely modulated by membrane-bound proteins, receptors, channels, and transporters that govern essential processes such as ion homeostasis, neurotransmitter clearance, and neuroimmune signaling (Figure 4)
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