Progesterone increases the number of Langerhans cells in human vaginal epithelium [1]

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1234-1235

  Wieser, Fritz ^a,c   Hosmann, Josef ^a   Tschugguel, Walter ^a   Czerwenka, Klaus ^b   Sedivy, Roland ^b   Huber, Johannes C ^a  

^a Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LANGERHANS CELL; LETTER; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; VAGINA EPITHELIUM;

EID: 0035004654     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(01)01796-4     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Endocrine regulation of mucosal immunity: Effect of sex hormones and cytokines on the afferent and efferent arms of the immune system in the female reproductive tract
2. Progesterone implants enhance SIV vaginal transmission and early virus load
3. Immunophenotypic characterization of simian immunodeficiency virus-infected dendritic cells in cervix, vagina, and draining lymph nodes of rhesus monkeys
4. Hormonal contraception, sexually transmitted disease, and risk of heterosexual transmission of human immuno-deficiency virus type 1