Cytokine production by peripheral blood monocytes during the normal human ovulatory menstrual cycle

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1173-1178

  Willis, C ^a,b   Morris, J M ^a,b   Danis, V ^b   Gallery, E D M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Human; Monocyte; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REPRODUCTION; SERUM; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0038408529     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg231     Document Type: Article

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