Microenvironment of the feto-maternal interface protects the semiallogenic fetus through its immunomodulatory activity on dendritic cells

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 781-788

  Zarnani, Amir Hassan ^a,b,c   Moazzeni, Seyed Mohammad ^a   Shokri, Fazel ^b,d   Salehnia, Mojdeh ^a   Dokouhaki, Pouneh ^b   Ghods, Roya ^b   Mahmoodi, Ahmad Reza ^b   Jeddi Tehrani, Mahmood ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Avesina Research Institute   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

decidua; dendritic cells; immunosuppression; Pregnancy; supernatant

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; THYMINE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DECIDUA; DENDRITIC CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; DECIDUA; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL;

EID: 51449094249     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.01.102     Document Type: Article

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