… immune protection in the intestinal and pulmonary mucosae, but our grasp of immune
mechanisms in the female reproductive tract (… the uterus, while permitting the passage of sperm. …

… A semen-induced pro-inflammatory immune response to prime the female reproductive tract
… A semen-induced tolerogenic immune response may also inhibit the clearance of HIV and …

… junction (UVJ), where sperm are kept alive for a few weeks. … by activation of the adaptive
immune system to remove the microbes. The innate immune response to pathogenic agents is …

… the female genital tract. The immune rejection of male semen in the female reproductive …
) antibodies is supposed to be dominant at the early phase of a primary immune response. In …

… the nature and regulation of the female reproductive tract response to seminal fluid. In rodents,
… A key result of the immune response to seminal fluid is induction of immune suppressive …

… Background: Semen induces an immune response at the female genital tract (FGT) to promote
… A pro-inflammatory immune response is generally mounted against semen in the FGT, …

… adaptive immune responses [14]. Cell-mediated immune responses protect the female from
… Immune cells are differentially distributed in each organ of the FMRT [15]. CD3 + T cells are …

… that play key roles in orchestrating immune responses during reproduction. These factors
are … of local immune responses in the female reproductive tract. Typically, semen initiates a …

… the male and female immune response against sperm. … semen in the female reproductive
tract, mainly in the cervix, increases the expression of the inflammatory and immune response …

… This dual activity may result in the selection of the fittest sperm subpopulation and elimination
of abnormal ones by immune cells recruited by the immune response induced by sperm …