Innately moving away from the Th1/Th2 paradigm in pregnancy

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 393-395

  Chaouat, G ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLONAL ANERGY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE STERILITY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; IMPLANTATION; INFLAMMATION; ISOGRAFT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MATING SYSTEM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; PREGNANCY; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0037342381     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2003.02100.x     Document Type: Review

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