Status of peripheral blood natural killer cells in women with recurrent spontaneous abortions and infertility of unknown aetiology

Human Reproduction

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 855-861

  Ntrivalas, E I ^a   Kwak Kim, J Y H ^a   Gilman Sachs, A ^a   Chung Bang, H ^a   Ng, S C ^a   Beaman, K D ^a   Mantouvalos, H P ^a   Beer, A E ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation markers; Flow cytometry; Natural killer cells; Spontaneous abortions; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD30 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; CD94 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN VIVO STUDY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MULTIPARA; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0035004533     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/16.5.855     Document Type: Article

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