Immune competence involving the natural killer cell lineage promotes placental growth

Placenta

Volumn 20, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 441-450

  Guimond, M J ^a,c   Wang, B ^b   Croy, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0033167912     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.1999.0398     Document Type: Article

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