Higher levels of cervicovaginal inflammatory and regulatory cytokines and chemokines in healthy young women with immature cervical epithelium

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 66-71

  Hwang, Loris Y ^a   Scott, Mark E ^a   Ma, Yifei ^a   Moscicki, Anna Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent women; Cervical epithelial maturation; Mucosal immunity; Sexually transmitted infections; Uterine cervix

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; RANTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; MENARCHE; METAPLASIA; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; T LYMPHOCYTE; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; VAGINITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; CERVIX UTERI; CHEMOKINES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; MENARCHE; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650233658     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jri.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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