Tritrichomonas foetus: Pathogenesis of acute infection in normal, estradiol-treated, and stressed mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-159

  Rutkowski, Melanie R ^a   Harmsen, Allen G ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute infection; constant bright illumination; DPBS; Dulbecco's phosphate buffered saline; Estradiol; Hank's balanced salt solution; HBSS; Ig; immunoglobulin; Inflammation; LL; Mouse model; Pathology; PMN; polymorphonuclear cells; Protozoan; TdT mediated dUTP nick end labeling; Trichomoniasis; Tritrichomonas foetus; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ESTRADIOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GENITAL TRACT INFLAMMATION; ILLUMINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; STRESS; TISSUE INJURY; TRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIGHT; LYMPHOCYTES; MASTIGOPHORA INFECTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUTROPHILS; STRESS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

PROTOZOA; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 34447123836     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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