Selective loss of mouse embryos due to the expression of transgenic major histocompatibility class I molecules early in embryogenesis

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-44

  Aït Azzouzene, Djemel ^a   Langkopf, Anja ^a   Cohen, José ^a   Bleux, Christian ^a   Gendron, Marie Claude ^b   Kanellopoulos Langevin, Colette ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Embryonic lethality; Maternal tolerance; MHC class la genes; Placenta; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; EMBRYO LOSS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; H-2 ANTIGENS; L CELLS (CELL LINE); MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVUM; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 2642698859     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199805)50:1<35::AID-MRD5>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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