NLRP3 inflammasome involvement in the organ damage and impaired spermatogenesis induced by testicular ischemia and reperfusion in mice

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 355, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 370-380

  Minutoli, Letteria ^a   Antonuccio, Pietro ^a   Irrera, Natasha ^a   Rinaldi, Mariagrazia ^a   Bitto, Alessandra ^a   Marini, Herbert ^a   Pizzino, Gabriele ^a   Romeo, Carmelo ^a   Pisani, Antonina ^a   Santoro, Giuseppe ^a   Puzzolo, Domenico ^a   Magno, Carlo ^a   Squadrito, Francesco ^a   Micali, Antonio ^a   Altavilla, Domenica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 (4 METHYLPHENYLSULFONYL) 2 PROPENENITRILE; BRILLIANT BLUE; CASPASE 3; CRYOPYRIN; DEOXYURIDINE; DIGOXIGENIN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; 3-(4-METHYLPHENYLSULFONYL)-2-PROPENENITRILE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CIAS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; COOMASSIE BRILLIANT BLUE; FUCHSINE; NITRILE; SULFONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPERFUSION INJURY; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS TORSION; TUNEL ASSAY; WILD TYPE MOUSE; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TESTIS; TESTIS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 1; CASPASE 3; INFLAMMASOMES; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRILES; ORCHIECTOMY; REPERFUSION INJURY; ROSANILINE DYES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SULFONES; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS;

EID: 84965123385     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.115.226936     Document Type: Article

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