The effect of valacyclovir treatment on natural killer cells of infertile women

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 248-255

  Thomas, Dimitrios ^a,b   Michou, Vassiliki ^a,c   Tegos, Vassilis ^d   Patargias, Theoharis ^c   Moustakarias, Theodoros ^e   Kanakas, Nikolaos ^e   Mantzavinos, Themis ^e   Apostolidis, Christophoros ^a   Salamalekis, Emmanouil ^f   Kalofoutis, Anastasios ^b   Tsilivakos, Vassilis ^a,g  

^a Locus Medicus Laboratory   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Maternity Clinic   (Greece)

^e Euromedica IVF Institute   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Herpesviruses; Infertility; Natural killer cells; Valacyclovir

Indexed keywords

VALACICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 7; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

EID: 11144355022     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2004.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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