The possible role of the JAK/STAT pathway in lymphocytes at the fetomaternal interface

Chemical Immunology and Allergy

Volumn 89, Issue , 2006, Pages 26-35

  Poehlmann, Tobias G ^a   Busch, Susann ^a   Mussil, Bianka ^a   Winzer, Harald ^a   Weinert, Judith ^a   Mebes, Imke ^a   Schaumann, Andreas ^a   Fitzgerald, Justine S ^a   Markert, Udo R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GROWTH PROMOTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DECIDUA; FEMALE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTES; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 27244441666     PISSN: 16602242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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