Uterine MHC class I molecules and β2-microglobulin are regulated by progesterone and conceptus interferons during pig pregnancy

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2494-2505

  Joyce, Margaret M ^a   Burghardt, James R ^a   Burghardt, Robert C ^a   Hooper, R Neil ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^a,b   Johnson, Greg A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGESTAGEN; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CONCEPTUS SECRETORY PROTEIN; DELTA INTERFERON; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN SLA 1; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN SLA 2; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN SLA 3; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN SLA 6; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN SLA 7; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN SLA 8; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; PROGESTERONE; SECRETORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZK 137316; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; INTERFERON, DELTA; MESSENGER RNA; PLACENTA PROTEIN; SWINE LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENDOMETRIUM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMPLANT; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC PUMP; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STROMA; SWINE; UTERINE TUBE; UTERUS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZATION; SECRETION;

ANIMALS; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; INTERFERON TYPE I; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERFERONS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROGESTERONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; UTERUS;

EID: 53149138613     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2494     Document Type: Article

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