Toll-like receptor 4 is an essential upstream regulator of on-time parturition and perinatal viability in mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3828-3841

  Wahid, Hanan H ^a   Dorian, Camilla L ^a   Chin, Peck Yin ^a   Hutchinson, Mark R ^a   Rice, Kenner C ^b   Olson, David M ^c   Moldenhauer, Lachlan M ^a   Robertson, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; NALOXONE; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYTOKINE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST; PROSTAGLANDIN F2ALPHA RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTOR; TLR4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; ON TIME PARTURITION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIRTH; C57BL MOUSE; DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; LEUKOCYTES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; PARTURITION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, PROSTAGLANDIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

EID: 84943632930     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2015-1089     Document Type: Article

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