Defining postpartum uterine disease and the mechanisms of infection and immunity in the female reproductive tract in cattle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1025-1032

  Sheldon, I Martin ^a   Cronin, James ^a   Goetze, Leopold ^b   Donofrio, Gaetano ^c   Schuberth, Hans Joachim ^d  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bovine; Female reproductive tract; Immunity; Immunology; Infection; Inflammation; Ovary; Prostaglandins; Toll like receptors; Uterus

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CD14 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; ESTRADIOL; GROWTH HORMONE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E; PROSTAGLANDIN F; PROTEIN MD 2; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STEROID HORMONE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; BOVINE HERPES VIRUS; CELL MIGRATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DAIRY CATTLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GRANULOSA CELL; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEOLYSIS; MACROPHAGE; METRITIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; SHORT SURVEY; UTERUS DISEASE; UTERUS FUNCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; REVIEW; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVINAE; BOVINE HERPESVIRUS 4; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS;

EID: 67650030016     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.077370     Document Type: Short Survey

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