Lack of detectable major histocompatibility complex class II A β-chain messenger ribonucleic acid in placentas of interferon-γ- and 5-azacytidine- treated mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 715-722

  Gustafsson, Erika ^b   Arvola, Marie ^b   Brunsberg, Ulrica ^c   Mattsson, Anita ^b   Mattsson, Ragnar ^a,b  

^a Dept of Anim Devmt and Genetics ^*  (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DEMETHYLATION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; AZACITIDINE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERFERON-GAMMA, RECOMBINANT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030985421     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.4.715     Document Type: Article

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