An In Vitro Coculture Model to Study Cytokine Profiles of Natural Killer Cells During Maternal Immune Cell-Trophoblast Interactions

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 196-202

  Ntrivalas, Evangelos ^a   Kwak Kim, Joanne ^a   Beaman, Kenneth ^a   Mantouvalos, Harilaos ^a   Gilman Sachs, Alice ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

HLA G; NK cells; TNF ; trophoblast cells

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA G ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; IONOMYCIN; MONENSIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TROPHOBLAST;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOKINES; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 33646087194     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsgi.2005.12.009     Document Type: Article

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