Intracellular cytokine expression of peripheral blood natural killer cell subsets in women with recurrent spontaneous abortions and implantation failures

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 157-165

  Fukui, Atsushi ^a,b   Kwak Kim, Joanne ^a   Ntrivalas, Evangelos ^a   Gilman Sachs, Alice ^a   Lee, Sung Ki ^a,c   Beaman, Kenneth ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Konyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

implantation failures; NK cell; NK1; NK2; NKr1; Recurrent spontaneous abortion; TNF GM CSF

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD56; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 38049150952     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.02.012     Document Type: Article

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