Sex hormones impact the expression of MAdCAM-1, CCL21, CCR5 and CCL4 in the endocervix.

<p>Endocervical and vaginal tissues were collected 5 weeks after the initiation of the hormones treatment and RT-qPCR for MAdCAM-1, CCL21, CCR5 and CCL4 was performed using a SybrGreen relative quantification assay. The expression of each gene was calculated relative to one animal chosen for each tissue. The graphs show the fold increase compared to the mean expression of the of the control group (bars represent mean±SEM). p<0.05 is considered significant. All the results with p<0.125 are also shown to indicate a tendency toward a significant difference.