Unique sensitivity to α-galactosylceramide of NKT cells in the uterus

Cellular Immunology

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 98-105

  Wang, Sen ^a   Li, Changchun ^a   Kawamura, Hiroki ^a   Watanabe, Hisami ^a   Abo, Toru ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GalCer; Intermediate TCR cells; NKT cells; Pregnancy; Uterus

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ABORTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LIVER CELL; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDES; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; UTERUS;

EID: 0036349224     PISSN: 00088749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-8749(02)00009-6     Document Type: Article

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