CD40 expression in uterine tissues: A key regulator of cytokine expression by fibroblasts

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 405-412

  King, Anne E ^a   Kelly, Rodney W ^a   Critchley, Hilary O D ^a   Malmstrom, Anders ^b   Sennstrom, Maria ^c   Phipps, Richard P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIGAND; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MYOMETRIUM; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; UTERINE CERVIX;

ANTIGENS, CD40; CELLS, CULTURED; CERVIX UTERI; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CYTOKINES; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; MYOMETRIUM; UTERUS;

EID: 0035145988     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.86.1.405     Document Type: Article

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