Interferon regulatory transcription factor 3 Protects mice from uterine horn pathology during chlamydia muridarum genital infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3922-3933

  Prantner, Daniel ^a,g   Sikes, James D ^b   Hennings, Leah ^c   Savenka, Alena V ^d   Basnakian, Alexei G ^d,e   Nagarajan, Uma M ^a,b,f  

^a Departments of Microbiology and Immunology   (United States)

^b Departments of Pediatrics   (United States)

^c Departments of Pathology   (United States)

^d Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^f ARKANSAS CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; BETA INTERFERON; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 3; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS HORN; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-3; INTERFERON-BETA; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; UTERUS;

EID: 80855141236     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00140-11     Document Type: Article

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