Study of the Uterine Local Immune Response in a Murine Model of Embryonic Death Due to Tritrichomonas foetus

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 128-137

  Woudwyk, Mariana A ^a,b   Monteavaro, Cristina E ^c   Jensen, Federico ^b   Soto, Pedro ^c   Barbeito, Claudio G ^a   Zenclussen, Ana C ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bovine genital tritrichomonosis; Cytokines; Embryonic death; Tritrichomonas foetus

Indexed keywords

HEME OXYGENASE 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 14; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EFFECTOR CELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TH17 CELL; TRICHOMONIASIS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS; UPREGULATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO LOSS; FEMALE; HEME OXYGENASE-1; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TH17 CELLS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS; UTERUS;

EID: 84863864977     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2012.01159.x     Document Type: Article

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