Inability to establish ectopic endometrium in a natural killer cell- deficient murine model: Immunologic, histologic and histochemical assessment

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 807-814

  Ramey, Jacques W ^b   Booker, S Sinclair ^b   Kanbour Shakir, Amal ^b   Campbell, Ann E ^b   Sharpe Timms, Kathy L ^b   Archer, David F ^a  

^a The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

endometriosis; killer cells, natural

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTISERUM; GANGLIOTETRAOSYLCERAMIDE; HEMOSIDERIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; MILK FAT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; G(M1) GANGLIOSIDE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PERITONEUM; SERPINS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 0029852992     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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