Placental trophoblast from successful human pregnancies expresses the tolerance signaling molecule, CD200 (OX-2)

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 187-195

  Clark, David A ^a,b,c   Keil, Anja ^a,d   Chen, Zhiqi ^b   Markert, Udo ^d   Manuel, Justin ^a,b   Gorczynski, Reginald M ^b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD200; Pregnancy immunology; Tolerance trophoblast

Indexed keywords

CD9 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD200; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABORTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; KARYOTYPE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MOLECULE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEDIMENTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STAINING; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MICE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0041425261     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0897.2003.00086.x     Document Type: Article

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