Cell Type-specific Expression and Function of Toll-like Receptors 2 and 4 in Human Placenta: Implications in Fetal Infection

Placenta

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1024-1031

  Ma, Y ^a   Krikun, G ^a   Abrahams, V M ^a   Mor, G ^a   Guller, S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal infection; Placenta; Syncytiotrophoblast; TLRs

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHORION VILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MACROPHAGE; MYOFIBROBLAST; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 34548384824     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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