Our new paper has been published by the Journal of Reproductive Immunology entitled ‘Ovine trophoblasts express cathelicidin host defence peptide in response to infection‘. This is the first study to show that ovine trophoblasts express cathelicidins, but do not upregulate expression of CHDP in response to LPS. The study also shows that ovine trophoblasts differentially regulate expression of CHDP and lack a demonstrable vitamin D-mediated cathelicidin response.
The article is available now (PubMed Link)
