Toll-like receptor-initiated testicular innate immune responses in mouse leydig cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2827-2836

  Shang, Tao ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Sun, Bing ^a   Deng, Tingting ^a   Han, Daishu ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA ACTIN; BETA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE AXL; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE MER; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 11; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 12; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 13; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERSTITIUM; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TESTIS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 79959401429     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-0031     Document Type: Article

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