Cytokine profiles in the testes of rats treated with lipopolysaccharide reveal localized suppression of inflammatory responses

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 288, Issue 6 57-6, 2005, Pages

  O'Bryan, Moira K ^a,b   Gerdprasert, Orapin ^a   Nikolic Paterson, David J ^c   Meinhardt, Andreas ^d   Muir, Julie A ^a   Foulds, Lynda M ^a   Phillips, David J ^a   De Kretser, David M ^a,b   Hedger, Mark P ^a,c  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fertility; Immunoregulation; Interleukins; Transforming growth factor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TISSUE EXTRACT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; LIVER; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORCHITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; SURVIVAL; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1; LEYDIG CELLS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; NUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 19344371636     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00651.2004     Document Type: Article

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