Failure of blood-thymus barrier as a mechanism of tumor and trophoblast escape

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 315-320

  Bubanovic, I V ^a  

^a Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; PROSTAGLANDIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CLONAL ANERGY; CLONE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; PERMEABILITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THYMUS; TROPHOBLAST; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0037369340     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(02)00450-4     Document Type: Review

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