The Maternal Immune System's Interaction with Circulating Fetal Cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 40-47

  Bonney, Elizabeth A ^a   Matzinger, Polly ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOTOXICITY; DBA MOUSE; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; FETUS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, SCID; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0030639646     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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