Uropathogenic E. coli induce different immune response in testicular and peritoneal macrophages: implications for testicular immune privilege.

Uropathogenic E. coli induce different immune response in testicular and peritoneal macrophages: implications for testicular immune privilege.

Infertility affects one in seven couples and ascending bacterial infections of the male genitourinary tract by Escherichia coli are an important cause of male factor infertility. Thus understanding mechanisms by which immunocompetent cells such as testicular macrophages (TM) respond to infection and...

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Main Authors: Sudhanshu Bhushan, Hamid Hossain, Yongning Lu, Andreas Geisler, Svetlin Tchatalbachev, Zbigniew Mikulski, Gerhard Schuler, Jörg Klug, Adrian Pilatz, Florian Wagenlehner, Trinad Chakraborty, Andreas Meinhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3229579?pdf=render

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