Cleavage/Alteration of Interleukin-8 by Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 in the Female Lower Genital Tract

OBJECTIVE: Interleukin-8 (IL-8, CXCL8) plays important roles in immune responses at mucosal sites including in the lower genital tract. Since several types of bacteria produce proteases that cleave IL-8 and many types of bacteria can be present in lower genital tract microbiota, we assessed genital...

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Autores principales: Zariffard, M. Reza, Anastos, Kathryn, French, Audrey L., Munyazesa, Elisaphane, Cohen, Mardge, Landay, Alan L., Spear, Gregory T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25611319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116911

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25611319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116911

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