γδ T Cells of Human Early Pregnancy Decidua: Evidence for Local Proliferation, Phenotypic Heterogeneity, and Extrathymic Differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 3266-3277

  Mincheva Nilsson, Lucia ^a   Kling, Maria ^a   Hammarström, Sten ^a   Nagaeva, Olga ^a   Sundqvist, Karl Gösta ^a   Hammarström, Marie Louise ^a   Baranov, Vladimir ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; INTEGRON INTEGRASE INTI1; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RAG 1 PROTEIN; RAG-1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RECOMBINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; V(D)J RECOMBINATION ACTIVATING PROTEIN 2;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREGNANCY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD56; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; DECIDUA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, RAG-1; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTEGRASES; INTERLEUKIN-7; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; RECOMBINASES; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031255313     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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