The role of macrophages in utero-placental interactions during normal and pathological pregnancy

Immunological Investigations

Volumn 37, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 535-564

  Renaud, Stephen J ^a   Graham, Charles H ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decidua; Macrophage; Placenta; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; B7 ANTIGEN; CD59 ANTIGEN; CD97 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; FAS LIGAND; FETAL ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; INTERLEUKIN 10; LIPOCORTIN 5; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN; NEUROKININ B; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DECIDUA; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS DEATH; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MACROPHAGE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; DECIDUA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 50049099227     PISSN: 08820139     EISSN: 15324311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08820130802191375     Document Type: Review

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