Progesterone inhibits rejection of xenogeneic transplants in the sheep uterus

Hormone Research

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 128-135

  Majewski, A C ^a   Hansen, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybridoma cells; Progesterone; Uterine tissue graft; Xenotransplant

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BUFFER; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE SURFACE MARKER; PHOSPHATE; PROGESTERONE; SESAME SEED OIL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE LEVEL; UTERUS; UTERUS CAVITY; UTERUS HORN; UTERUS SURGERY; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD45; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COUNT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GRAFT REJECTION; HYBRIDOMAS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; SHEEP; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; UTERUS;

EID: 0036389446     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063578     Document Type: Article

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