MBin1b transgenic mice show enhanced resistance to epididymal infection by bacteria challenge

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 445-451

  Fei, Z ^a,b   Hu, S ^a   Xiao, L ^a   Zhou, J ^b   Diao, H ^d   Yu, H ^d   Fang, S ^b   Wang, Y ^b   Wan, Y ^b   Wang, W ^b,c   He, Y ^b   Wang, C ^a   Xu, G ^b   Wang, Z ^b   Zhang, Y ^a   Fei, J ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b Shanghai Research Center for Model Organisms   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

antimicrobial peptide; defensin; epididymis; fertility; mBin1b; transgenic

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN MBIN1B; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL INVASION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MALE; MBIN1B GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-DEFENSINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84865660204     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gene.2012.13     Document Type: Article

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