Seminal plasma induces global transcriptomic changes associated with cell migration, proliferation and viability in endometrial epithelial cells and stromal fibroblasts

Human Reproduction

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1255-1270

  Chen, Joseph C ^a   Johnson, Brittni A ^a   Erikson, David W ^a   Piltonen, Terhi T ^a,d   Barragan, Fatima ^a   Chu, Simon ^b   Kohgadai, Nargis ^a,b,c   Irwin, Juan C ^a   Greene, Warner C ^b,c   Giudice, Linda C ^a   Roan, Nadia R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Endometrium; Microarray; Reproduction; Semen

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; CD4 ANTIGEN; CHEMOATTRACTANT PROTEIN 1; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 2; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 3; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FRACTALKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN A;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MONOCYTE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PROTEIN SECRETION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RNA ISOLATION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; STROMA CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ADULT; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MIGRATION ASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; NECROSIS; PH; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION; CELL MOTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; SEMEN; TRANSCRIPTOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900806456     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deu047     Document Type: Article

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