Immune parameters in mares resistant and susceptible to persistent post-breeding endometritis: Effects of immunomodulation

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 30-39

  Fumuso, Elida Ana ^a   Aguilar, Javier ^a   Giguère, Steeve ^a   Rivulgo, Margarita ^a   Wade, José ^a   Rogan, Dragan ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Endometritis; Immunomodulation; Mares; Uterus

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 8; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL WALL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; MARE; MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SPERM; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; CELL WALL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENDOMETRITIS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-8; LYMPHOCYTES; MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI; UTERUS;

MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI;

EID: 34250694819     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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