Absence of natural killer cells during murine pregnancy is associated with reproductive compromise in TgE26 mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 169-179

  Guimond, Marie Josée ^a   Luross, Jeffrey A ^a   Wang, Baoping ^b   Terhorst, Cox ^b   Danial, Susan ^a   Croy, B Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; DECIDUALIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FETAL RESORPTION; GENE DELETION; INTERLEUKIN-2; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED CBA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; UTERUS;

EID: 0031012083     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.1.169     Document Type: Article

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