Human fetal membranes generate distinct cytokine profiles in response to bacterial toll-like receptor and nod-like receptor agonists

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Hoang, Mai ^a   Potter, Julie A ^a   Gysler, Stefan M ^a   Han, Christina S ^a   Guller, Seth ^a   Norwitz, Errol R ^b   Abrahams, Vikki M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Caspase 1; Cytokines; Fetal membrane; Interleukin 1beta; Nod like receptors; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 4; CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; CYTOKINE; FLAGELLIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RANTES; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CPG-OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; N(2)-(GAMMA-D-GLUTAMYL)-MESO-2,2'-DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; NOD2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN PROTEIN; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPREGULATION; AGONISTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

CYTOKINES; DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; FLAGELLIN; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NOD SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEINS; NOD2 SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 84899992898     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.115428     Document Type: Article

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