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IL-17C is a driver of damaging inflammation during <i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</i> infection of human Fallopian tube
2022-11-29
Abstract excerpt
The human-restricted pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae ascends into the upper female reproductive tract to cause damaging inflammation within the Fallopian tubes (salpingitis) and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), increasing the risk of infertility and life-threatening ectopic pregnancy. The loss of ciliated cells from the epithelium is thought to be both a consequence of inflammation and a cause of the associated...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8e4001ab-b3de-562f-8c1f-4fc8238dcc70
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.11.28.518270
