Vaginal chlamydial clearance following primary or secondary infection in mice occurs independently of tnf-α

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Kamalakaran, Sangamithra ^a   Chaganty, Bharat K R ^a   Gupta, Rishein ^a   Guentzel, M Neal ^a   Chambers, James P ^a   Murthy, Ashlesh K ^a,b   Arulanandam, rnard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Granzyme; Primary and secondary genital infection; Tnf ; Upper genital tract pathology

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; GRANZYME B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2B; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYTOKINE; GRANZYME; GZMB PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; CHLAMYDIASIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; SPLEEN CELL; UTERUS HORN; VAGINITIS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; C57BL MOUSE; CHLAMYDIA; DISEASE MODEL; GUINEA PIG; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY AND SECONDARY GENITAL INFECTION; SPLEEN; TNF-Α; UPPER GENITAL TRACT PATHOLOGY; UTERINE TUBE; VAGINA;

CHLAMYDIA; GRANZYME; PRIMARY AND SECONDARY GENITAL INFECTION; TNF-Α; UPPER GENITAL TRACT PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GRANZYMES; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SPLEEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VAGINA;

EID: 84897427511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2013.00011     Document Type: Article

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