Progesterone directly and indirectly affects perforin expression in cytolytic cells

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 312-320

  Laskarin G ^a   Faust, Zs ^b   Strbo N ^a   Sotosek V ^a   Szekeres Bartho, J ^b   Podack, E R ^c   Rukavina, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decidual granular lymphocytes; First trimester pregnancy; Perforin; Peripheral blood lymphocytes; PIBF; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; PERFORIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADHERENT CELL; ARTICLE; BLOCKING FACTOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLYSIS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUPERNATANT; UTERUS;

EID: 0345713138     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.1999.tb00107.x     Document Type: Article

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