Azithromycin treatment modulates the extracellular signal-regulated kinase mediated pathway and inhibits inflammatory cytokines and chemokines in epithelial cells from infertile women with recurrent Chlamydia trachomatis infection

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 545-554

  Srivastava, Pragya ^a   Vardhan, Harsh ^a   Bhengraj, Apurb Rashmi ^a   Jha, Rajneesh ^a   Singh, Laishram Chandreshwor ^a   Salhan, Sudha ^a   Mittal, Aruna ^a  

^a SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CHEMOKINE; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; CXCL9 CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; EPITHELIAL DERIVED NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING FACTOR 78; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN MCL 1; RANTES;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHEMOKINES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RECURRENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 79960936582     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: 15577430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2010.1167     Document Type: Article

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