Implications in the maintenance of pregnancy: I. Presence of immunoreactive glycodelin in human umbilical cord vein endothelial cells

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 839-842

  Kim, Jong G ^a   Ramachandran, Sumathi ^a   Zhou, H Mimi ^a   Rayner, Denise ^a   Parthasarathy, Sampath ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial cell; Immune suppression; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

PLACENTA PROTEIN 14;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL VEIN;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; STAINING AND LABELING; UMBILICAL VEINS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0034062980     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00599-3     Document Type: Article

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