Recruitment of circulating NK cells through decidual tissues: A possible mechanism controlling NK cell accumulation in the uterus during early pregnancy

Blood

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3108-3115

  Carlino, Claudia ^a   Stabile, Helena ^a   Morrone, Stefania ^a   Bulla, Roberta ^b   Soriani, Alessandra ^a   Agostinis, Chiara ^b   Bossi, Fleur ^b   Mocci, Carlo ^c   Sarazani, Filippo ^c   Tedesco, Francesco ^b   Santoni, Angela ^a,b   Gismondi, Angela ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECIDUAL NATURAL KILLER CELL; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STROMA CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DECIDUA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; TIME;

CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINES; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DECIDUA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; RNA, MESSENGER; STROMAL CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42149136972     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2007-08-105965     Document Type: Article

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