14th International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop: Report from the reproductive immunology component

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 297-303

  Varla Leftherioti, M ^a   Keramitsoglou, T ^a   Spyropoulou Vlachou, M ^b   Papadimitropoulos, M ^b   Kontopoulou Antonopoulou, V ^a   Tsekoura, C ^a   Sankarkumar, U ^c   Paparistidis, N ^a   Ghosh, K ^c   Pawar, A ^c   Vrani, V ^b   Daniilidis, M ^d   Parapanissiou, E ^e   Diler, A S ^f   Carin, M ^f   Stavropoulos Giokas, C ^b  

^a HELENA VENIZELOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^f ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Human leukocyte antigen sharing; Implantation failure; In vitro fertilization; Killer immunoglobulin like receptor repertoire; Recurrent spontaneous abortion

Indexed keywords

HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ALLOIMMUNITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROL GROUP; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LABORATORY; NIDATION; POPULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENOTYPE; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGENETICS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 34247263978     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2006.00782.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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