Time course of defense mechanisms in bovine endometrium in response to lipopolysaccharide

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Swangchan Uthai, Theerawat ^a   Lavender, Chloe R M ^a   Cheng, Zhangrui ^a   Fouladi Nashta, Ali A ^a   Wathes, D C ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Female reproductive tract; Gene expression; Immunology; Prostaglandins

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; CALGRANULIN A; CALGRANULIN B; CD14 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; COLLAGENASE 3; CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; EPITHELIAL DERIVED NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING FACTOR 78; INTERLEUKIN 8; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN A2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PRODUCT; IN VITRO STUDY; METRITIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA CELL; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDOMETRITIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; SECRETION (PROCESS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TIME;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD14; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMAL CELLS; TIME FACTORS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84877313349     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.102376     Document Type: Article

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