REVIEW ARTICLE: Toll-Like Receptors, Inflammation and Tumor in the Human Female Reproductive Tract

Toll-like receptors are an important family of pattern recognition receptors. They recognize microbial conserved components and trigger protective responses to the invading pathogens, which constitute a major part of the innate immune system. Toll-like receptors are mainly expressed in immune cells. The current evidences demonstrate that Toll-like receptors are present in some epithelial cells and epithelium derived tumor cells. The expression...