Evaluation of the systemic acute phase response and endometrial gene expression of serum amyloid A and pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in mares with experimentally induced endometritis

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 95-105

  Mette, Christoffersen ^a   Camilla Dooleweerdt, Baagoe ^a   Stine, Jacobsen ^a   Anders Miki, Bojesen ^a   Morten Roenn, Petersen ^a   Henrik, Lehn Jensen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Endometritis; Escherichia coli; Horse; Serum amyloid A

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; AMYLOID A PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; FIBRINOGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ENDOMETRITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOKINES; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOMETRITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN;

EQUIDAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77957687670     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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