Uterine natural killer cells are targets for a trophoblast cell-specific cytokine, prolactin-like protein A

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2711-2720

  Müller, Heiner ^a,d   Liu, Bing ^a   Croy, B Anne ^b   Head, Judith R ^c   Hunt, Joan S ^a   Dai, Guoli ^a   Soares, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CELL SURFACE MARKER; CYTOKINE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP42; PROLACTIN; PROLACTIN LIKE PROTEIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHORIOALLANTOIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS;

EID: 0033279169     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.6.6828     Document Type: Article

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