Quotidian changes of genital tract cytokines in human immunodeficiency virus-1-infected women during the menstrual cycle

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cortez, Valerie ^a,b   Odem Davis, Katherine ^b   Lehman, Dara A ^b   Mabuka, Jennifer ^b   Overbaugh, Julie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Hormones; Human immunodeficiency virus; Menstrual cycle

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2 INTERFERON; CYTOKINE; EOTAXIN; ESTRADIOL; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 8; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LYMPHOTOXIN; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VAGINAL LAVAGE; VAGINITIS; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 84973378832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofu002     Document Type: Article

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