Applying embryo-derived immune tolerance to the treatment of immune disorders

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1110, Issue , 2007, Pages 602-618

  Barnea, Eytan R ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Society for the Investigation of Early Pregnancy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CIRCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JUVENILE DIABETES MELLITUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NIDATION; OVARY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTECTION; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS;

EID: 35748956442     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1423.064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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