Caput epididymitis but not orchitis was induced by vasectomy in a murine model of experimental autoimmune orchitis

Reproduction

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 859-866

  Qu, Ning ^a   Terayama, Hayato ^a   Naito, Munekazu ^a   Ogawa, Yuki ^a   Hirai, Shuichi ^a   Kitaoka, Miyuki ^a   Yi, Shuang Qin ^a   Itoh, Masahiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA;

ACROSOME; ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDIDYMITIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; TISSUE LEVEL; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORCHITIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC; VASECTOMY;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 45249123675     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-08-0018     Document Type: Article

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