TGFβ2 mRNA expression and pregnancy failure in mice

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 124-133

  Gorivodsky, Marat ^a   Torchinsky, Arkady ^a   Zemliak, Ilona ^a   Savion, Shoshana ^a   Fein, Amos ^a   Toder, Vladimir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Immunopotentiation; Postimplantation pregnancy loss; TGF 2

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FETUS RESORPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPOTENTIATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEUKOCYTE; METRIAL GLAND; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; STROMA;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO LOSS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED ICR; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0032790145     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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