Expression of proinflammatory cytokines and receptors by human fallopian tubes in organ culture following challenge with Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 527-532

  Maisey, Kevin ^a   Nardocci, Gino ^a   Imarai, Monica ^a   Cardenas, Hugo ^a   Rios, Miguel ^a   Croxatto, Horacio B ^b   Heckels, John E ^c   Christodoulides, Myron ^c   Velasquez, Luis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Instituto Chileno de Medicina Reproductiva   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SALPINGITIS; TISSUE INJURY; UTERINE TUBE;

CYTOKINES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0037222966     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.1.527-532.2003     Document Type: Article

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