Variations in cytokine mRNA expression during normal human pregnancy

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 317-322

  Kruse, N ^a   Greif, M ^a   Moriabadi, N F ^a   Marx, L ^a   Toyka, K V ^a   Rieckmann, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Immunomodulation; Polymerase chain reaction; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOKINE; ESTRADIOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOKINES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0033979848     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01123.x     Document Type: Article

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