Mucin depleted foci, colonic preneoplastic lesions lacking Muc2, show up-regulation of Tlr2 but not bacterial infiltration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Femia, Angelo Pietro ^a   Swidsinski, Alexander ^b   Dolara, Piero ^a   Salvadori, Maddalena ^a   Amedei, Amedeo ^a,c   Caderni, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUCIN 2; RIBOSOME RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TLR2 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON MUCOSA; COLON TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HSPD1 GENE; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; IRAK1 GENE; MALE; MAP4K4 GENE; MUCIN DEPLETED FOCI; NONHUMAN; PRECANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TLR2 GENE; UBE2N GENE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; COLON; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MUCIN-2; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84855400887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029918     Document Type: Article

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