Fig. 6
Chemokines generally show greater induction during infection in diestrus phase than in estrus phase. The phase-dependent effect on infection induced chemokine expression is shown as differential fold change in transcript level after 6 h of transcervical infection with 107 gonococci during diestrus versus estrus phase over phase specific controls (signed ratio of infection-induced fold change in diestrus phase to that in estrus phase). Colors are scaled so that red and blue indicate differential fold changes of ≥2.5 or ≤ − 2.71, respectively, and white indicates a differential fold change of 0 (no difference in fold change between phases). N = 4 per condition except for PBS estrus N = 3