Clinical implication of natural killer cells and reproduction

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 388-400

  Kwak kim, Joanne ^a   Gilman Sachs, Alice ^a  

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

Author keywords

CD56+; Cytotoxicity; Decidua; Endometrium; Infertility; Natural killer cells; Peripheral blood; Recurrent pregnancy losses; Recurrent spontaneous abortions

Indexed keywords

CD30 ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; CD69 ANTIGEN; CD94 ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR;

CELL INTERACTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; GENE CONTROL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFERTILITY; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NIDATION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TROPHOBLAST;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ANIMALS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY, MATERNAL-FETAL; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; REPRODUCTION; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 42149086512     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2008.00596.x     Document Type: Review

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