The female lower genital tract is a privileged compartment with IL-10 producing dendritic cells and poor Th1 immunity following Chlamydia trachomatis infection

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Marks, Ellen ^a   Tam, Miguel A ^a,b   Lycke, Nils Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; MESSENGER RNA; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; TRANSFER RNA; CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; TH1 CELL; VIROLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; LANGAT VIRUS; MUS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERLEUKIN-10; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TH1 CELLS; TH17 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 79251477532     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001179     Document Type: Article

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