Nerve growth factor in reproductive biology: Link between the immune, endocrine and nervous system?

Chemical Immunology and Allergy

Volumn 89, Issue , 2006, Pages 135-148

  Tometten, Mareike ^a   Blois, Sandra ^a   Arck, Petra C ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Biomedizinisches Forschungszentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 12; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; PROGESTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TRYPTOPHAN 2,3 DIOXYGENASE;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PLEIOTROPY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TH1 CELL; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECIDUA; ENDOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DECIDUA; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY MAINTENANCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGESTERONE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPTOPHAN OXYGENASE;

EID: 27244446643     PISSN: 16602242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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