Comparison of Fetal and Maternal Inflammatory Responses in the Ovine Placenta after Experimental Infection with Chlamydophila abortus

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 135, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 83-92

  Sammin, D J ^a   Markey, B K ^b   Quinn, P J ^b   McElroy, M C ^a   Bassett, H F ^b  

^a Veterinary Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

abortion; bacterial infection; Chlamydophila abortus; placentitis; sheep

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS; CHORIOALLANTOIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; ENDOMETRITIS; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; THROMBOSIS; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33748699332     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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