Fas Ligand Is Positioned in Mouse Uterus and Placenta to Prevent Trafficking of Activated Leukocytes between the Mother and the Conceptus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4122-4128

  Hunt, Joan S ^a   Vassmer, Dianne ^a   Ferguson, Thomas A ^b   Miller, Lance ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAS LIGAND; FASL PROTEIN, MOUSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

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