Secretion of pro-apoptotic intron 4-retaining soluble HLA-G1 by human villous trophoblast

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3576-3586

  Solier, Corinne ^a   Aguerre Girr, Maryse ^a   Lenfant, Françoise ^a   Campan, Agnès ^a   Berrebi, Alain ^b   Rebmann, Vera ^c   Grosse Wilde, Hans ^c   Le Bouteiller, Philippe ^a  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

^b Serv Univ Psychiat l'Enfant l'A   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

HLA; Reproductive immunology; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA G ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIGEN FUNCTION; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SECRETION; CHORION VILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLUBILITY; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TROPHOBLAST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0036914359     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200212)32:12<3576::AID-IMMU3576>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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