Antimicrobial peptides in the female reproductive tract: A critical component of the mucosal immune barrier with physiological and clinical implications

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 353-377

  Yarbrough, Victoria L ^a   Winkle, Sean ^a   Herbst Kralovetz, Melissa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Epithelial barrier; Host defense; Reproductive immunology; Vaginal microbiome

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; ALPHA DEFENSIN; AMPHOPHILE; BETA DEFENSIN; CALGRANULIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; DEFENSIN; ELAFIN; HE4 PEPTIDE; KINOCIDIN; LACTOFERRIN; LYSOZYME; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3ALPHA; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN S 100; PSORIASIN; SECRETORY LEUKOCYTE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SEX HORMONE; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D; THETA DEFENSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHEY ACID PROTEIN; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALPHA HELIX; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BASOPHIL; BETA SHEET; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM; DEGRANULATION; DISULFIDE BOND; EARLY PREGNANCY LOSS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIUM; EOSINOPHIL; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS MEMBRANE; GARDNERELLA INFECTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METRITIS; MICROBIOME; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEUTROPHIL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PHAGOCYTE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURFACE CHARGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE; UPREGULATION; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA EPITHELIUM; VAGINAL DYSBIOSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MUCOSA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VAGINA;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROBIOTA; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VAGINA;

EID: 84929754743     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmu065     Document Type: Article

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