Identification of ITGA4/ITGB7 and ITGAE/ITGB7 expressing subsets of decidual dendritic-like cells within distinct microdomains of the pregnant mouse uterus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 624-632

  Behrends, Jochen ^a   Karsten, Christian M ^a   Wilke, Sonja ^a   Röbke, Astrid ^a   Kruse, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decidua; Dendritic cells; Integrins; Mouse; Pregnancy; Reproductive immunology; Uterine NK cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTEGRIN; ALPHA4 INTEGRIN; BETA7 INTEGRIN; CD11B ANTIGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; INTEGRIN; INTEGRIN ALPHA E; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DECIDUA; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; INTEGRIN ALPHA CHAINS; INTEGRIN ALPHA4; INTEGRIN BETA CHAINS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERUS;

EID: 53349089727     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.067041     Document Type: Article

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