Accounting for the peripartum loss of granulated metrial gland cells, a natural killer cell population, from the pregnant mouse uterus

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 262-269

  Delgado, Silvia R ^a   McBey, Betty Anne ^a   Yamashiro, Shigeto ^a   Fujita, Jun ^b   Kiso, Yasuo ^c   Croy, B Anne ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Decidua; lpr lpr mice; Multinucleate cells; Necrosis; NK cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; MOUSE; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0029873319     PISSN: 07415400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jlb.59.2.262     Document Type: Article

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