Amniotic fluid soluble human leukocyte antigen G is markedly decreased in offspring with neural tube defects

Early Human Development

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 101-105

  Emmer, Peter M ^a   Steegers, Eric A P ^a   Van Lierop, Marié Jose ^b   Steegers Theunissen, Régine P M ^a   Loke, Yung Way ^c   Joosten, Irma ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NV ORGANON   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid; HLA G; Neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN;

AMNION FLUID; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0036180697     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(01)00236-5     Document Type: Article

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