Maternally-administered lipopolysaccharide (LPS) increases tumor necrosis factor alpha in fetal liver and fetal brain: Its suppression by low-dose LPS pretreatment

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-19

  Ning, Huan ^a   Wang, Hua ^a   Zhao, Lei ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Li, Xiang Yun ^a   Chen, Yuan Hua ^a   Xu, De Xiang ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fetal brain; Fetal liver; Lipopolysaccharide; Tumor necrosis factor alpha

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DESENSITIZATION; FEMALE; FETUS LIVER; IMMUNOMODULATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MATERNAL SERUM; MATERNAL TREATMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LIVER; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

MUS;

EID: 37049010116     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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