Three weekly courses of betamethasone administered to pregnant baboons at 0.6, 0.65, and 0.7 of gestation alter fetal and maternal lymphocyte populations at 0.95 of gestation

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-163

  Schlabritz Loutsevitch, Natalia E ^a,c   Hodara, Vida L ^b,c   Parodi, Laura M ^c   Hubbard, Gene B ^b,c   Jenkins, Susan L ^a   Dudley, Donald J ^a   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a   Giavedoni, Luis D ^b,c  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Glucocorticoids; Immune system; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CD3 ANTIBODY; CHLORDANE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS HEART; GRANULOCYTE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MONOCYTE; MORPHOMETRICS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BETAMETHASONE; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; PAPIO; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 33644926104     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jri.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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