Necrosis Is the Dominant Cell Death Pathway in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Elicited Epididymo-Orchitis and Is Responsible for Damage of Rat Testis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lu, Yongning ^a   Bhushan, Sudhanshu ^a   Tchatalbachev, Svetlin ^a   Marconi, Marcelo ^a   Bergmann, Martin ^a   Weidner, Wolfgang ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^a   Meinhardt, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 8; DNA FRAGMENT; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIDIDYMOORCHITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GERM CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORCHITIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS CELL; TESTIS INJURY; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; DNA DAMAGE; EPIDIDYMITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HMGB1 PROTEIN; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; NECROSIS; NUCLEOSOMES; ORCHITIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RATTUS;

EID: 84871805331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052919     Document Type: Article

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