Immune cells contribute to systemic cross-talk between the embryo and mother during early pregnancy in cooperation with the endocrine system

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-29

  Fujiwara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corpus luteum; Cross talk; Embryo implantation; Endometrial differentiation; Trophoblast invasion

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR1; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 8; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RELAXIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DELAYED IMPLANTATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATION PERIOD; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUTEAL PHASE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN CELL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 33748517214     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2006.00119.x     Document Type: Article

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