Mouse estrous cycle regulation of vaginal versus uterine cytokines, chemokines, α-/β-defensins and TLRs

Innate Immunity

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-131

  Hickey, Danica K ^a   Fahey, John V ^a   Wira, Charles R ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

chemokine; cytokine; defensin; estrous cycle; Innate immunity; TLR; uterus; vagina

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; BETA DEFENSIN 1; BETA DEFENSIN 2; BETA DEFENSIN 3; BETA DEFENSIN 4; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 9; MESSENGER RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 12; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 13; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROESTRUS; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINAL SECRETION;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINE CXCL1; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; UTERUS; VAGINA;

MUS;

EID: 84876322762     PISSN: 17534259     EISSN: 17534267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753425912454026     Document Type: Article

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