Chlamydial heat shock protein 60-specific T cells in inflamed salpingeal tissue

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 162-166

  Kinnunen, Anne ^a   Molander, Pontus ^b   Morrison, Richard ^c   Lehtinen, Matti ^a   Karttunen, Riitta ^d   Tiitinen, Aila ^b   Paavonen, Jorma ^b   Surcel, Heljä Marja ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Chlamydial heat shock protein 60; T lymphocyte clones; Tubal infertility

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; INTERLEUKIN 10;

ADULT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGECTOMY; SALPINGITIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHAPERONIN 60; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLONE CELLS; CYTOKINES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SALPINGITIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0036155896     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(01)02922-3     Document Type: Article

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