The H-Y Response in Mid-Gestation and Long After Delivery in Mice Primed Before Pregnancy

Immunological Investigations

Volumn 32, Issue 42006, 2003, Pages 71-81

  Bonney, E A ^a   Onyekwuluje, J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

H Y; Immune response; Immunologic memory; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; H-Y ANTIGEN; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MALE; MICE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SEX FACTORS; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038035565     PISSN: 08820139     EISSN: 15324311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/IMM-120019209     Document Type: Article

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