Innate immune responses of epididymal epithelial cells to Staphylococcus aureus infection

Immunology Letters

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 84-90

  Zhao, Yun Tao ^a,b   Guo, Jing Hui ^a   Wu, Zhong Luan ^a   Xiong, Yuan ^a   Zhou, Wen Liang ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epididymal epithelial cells; Innate immune responses; NF B; p38 MAPK; Staphylococcus aureus; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

3 (4 METHYLPHENYLSULFONYL) 2 PROPENENITRILE; 4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 METHYLSULFINYLPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; NITRIC OXIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; IMIDAZOLES; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRILES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SULFONES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 47149117948     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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