Expanded cohorts of maternal CD8+ T-cells specific for paternal MHC class I accumulate during pregnancy

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-62

  Zhou, Min ^a   Mellor, Andrew L ^a  

^a Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

MHC I; Pregnancy; T cells; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; H-2 ANTIGENS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0032447509     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0378(98)00030-8     Document Type: Article

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