Cytokines and chemokines during human embryo implantation: Roles in implantation and early placentation

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 437-444

  Salamonsen, Lois A ^a   Hannan, Natalie J ^a,b   Dimitriadis, Evdokia ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemokine; Cytokine; Implantation; Infertility; Miscarriage; Placentation

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE;

BLASTOCYST; CELL TYPE; CHEMOTAXIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NIDATION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT ABORTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; CHEMOKINES; CYTOKINES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35848964369     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-991041     Document Type: Review

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