Immune physiology of the mammalian ovary - A review

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-26

  Bukovsky, Antonin ^a,b   Caudle, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Follicular renewal; Immune system; Neo oogenesis; Ovarian surface epithelium; Stemcells

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PERICYTE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PERICYTES; RATS;

EID: 37349107455     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2007.00562.x     Document Type: Review

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