Is there a mucosal immune system associated with the mammalian oviduct?

Biological Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 329-338

  Cardenas, Hugo ^a   Corvalan, Liliana ^b   Imarai, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Fallopian tube; Immunoglobins; Local immune system; Mucosal immune system; Oviduct; Review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; UTERUS; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIUM; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; LEUKOCYTES;

FALLOPIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032421803     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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