TGF-β mediates proinflammatory seminal fluid signaling in human cervical epithelial cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1024-1035

  Sharkey, David J ^a   Macpherson, Anne M ^a   Tremellen, Kelton P ^b   Mottershead, David G ^a   Gilchrist, Robert B ^a   Robertson, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Repromed   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3ALPHA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; UTERINE CERVIX;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERVIX UTERI; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MALE; MICE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEMEN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

EID: 84863622625     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200005     Document Type: Article

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