T helper 1 response against Leishmania major in pregnant C57BL/6 mice increases implantation failure and fetal resorptions: Correlation with increased IFN-γ and TNF and reduced IL-10 production by placental cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 653-662

  Krishnan, Lakshmi ^a   Guilbert, Larry J ^a   Wegmann, Thomas G ^a   Belosevic, Miodrag ^a   Mosmann, Tim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS RESORPTION; HELPER CELL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FETAL RESORPTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-2; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TH1 CELLS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0030025970     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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