Antimicrobial Responses in the Male Reproductive Tract of Lipopolysaccharide Challenged Rats

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 557-568

  Biswas, Barnali ^a   Yenugu, Suresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Defensin; Epididymis; Lipopolysaccharide; Sperm associated antigen

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SPERM ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 11; SPERM ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 11E; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINAL VESICLE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CYTOKINES; DEFENSINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GENITALIA, MALE; GLYCOPEPTIDES; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79955150782     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2010.00937.x     Document Type: Article

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