Gender dimorphism of the cardiac dysfunction in murine sepsis: Signalling mechanisms and age-dependency

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Jianmin ^a   Chiazza, Fausto ^b   Collino, Massimo ^b   Patel, Nimesh S A ^a   Coldewey, Sina M ^c   Thiemermann, Christoph ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; I KAPPA B ALPHA; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN KINASE B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; I KAPPA B; NF-KAPPAB INHIBITOR ALPHA; NOS2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NOS3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RELA PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; I-KAPPA B PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SEPSIS; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84903164557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100631     Document Type: Article

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