Functional studies of human decidua in spontaneous early pregnancy loss: Effect of soluble factors and purified CD56+ lymphocytes on killing of natural killerand lymphokine-activated killer-sensitive targets

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 982-987

  Vassiliadou, N ^a,b   Bulmer, J N ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; CHROMIUM 51; INTERLEUKIN 2;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOKINE ACTIVATED KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANTIGENS, CD56; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; INTERLEUKIN-2; KILLER CELLS, LYMPHOKINE-ACTIVATED; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031943967     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.4.982     Document Type: Article

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