Local host response to chlamydial urethral infection in male guinea pigs

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1670-1681

  Wang, Yin ^a   Nagarajan, Uma ^a   Hennings, Leah ^a   Bowlin, Anne K ^a   Rank, Roger G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RANTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INFILTRATION; CHLAMYDIA; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GUINEA PIG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; URETHRITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BODILY SECRETIONS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CYTOKINES; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; URETHRITIS;

EID: 77950222582     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01339-09     Document Type: Article

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