Expression of structural proteins in human female and male genital epithelia and implications for sexually transmitted infections

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Dinh, Minh H ^a   Okocha, Eneniziaogochukwu A ^a   Koons, Ann ^a   Veazey, Ronald S ^b   Hope, Thomas J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier function; Cervix; Developmental origins of health and disease; Filaggrin; Intercellular junctions; Keratin; Male reproductive tract; Vaginal epithelium

Indexed keywords

DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 2; EOSIN; FILAGGRIN; HEMATOXYLIN; INVOLUCRIN; UVOMORULIN; CADHERIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MACACA; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MACACA MULATTA; METABOLISM; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MACACA MULATTA;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 2; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME;

EID: 84860168930     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.094789     Document Type: Article

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