Improvement of fertility with adoptive CD25+ natural killer cell transfer in subfertile non-obese diabetic mice

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-103

  Wang, Wenjing ^a   Lin, Yi ^a   Zeng, Shan ^a   Li, Da Jin ^b  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Immune modulation; Immunodeficiency; Natural killer cell; Pregnancy tolerance; Regulatory NK cell

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TRANSFER; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SUBFERTILITY;

EID: 58649100701     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60430-0     Document Type: Article

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