Human decidual macrophages and NK cells differentially express Toll-like receptors and display distinct cytokine profiles upon TLR stimulation

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Duriez, Marion ^a,b   Quillay, Héloïse ^a,c   Madec, Yoann ^a   El Costa, Hicham ^a   Cannou, Claude ^a   Marlin, Romain ^d   De Truchis, Claire ^e   Rahmati, Mona ^f   Barré Sinoussi, Françoise ^a   Nugeyre, Marie Thérèse ^a   Menu, Elisabeth ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d CNRS Bordeaux Segalen University   (France)

^e HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

^f PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Decidua; Innate mucosal immunity; Macrophages; Maternofetal interface; NK cells; TLR

Indexed keywords

BETA CHEMOKINE; CD14 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; CXCL9 CHEMOKINE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1B; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL STIMULATION; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACROPHAGE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84905368827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00316     Document Type: Article

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