Seminal fluid drives expansion of the CD4+CD25+ T regulatory cell pool and induces tolerance to paternal alloantigens in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1036-1045

  Robertson, Sarah A ^a,b   Guerin, Leigh R ^a   Bromfield, John J ^a   Branson, Kim M ^a   Ahlström, Aisling C ^a   Care, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Female reproductive tract; Immunology; Pregnancy; Seminal fluid; Seminal vesicles; T regulatory cells; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ESTRUS; EXCISION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEMINAL VESICLE; TUMOR CELL; UTERUS; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COPULATION; FEMALE; H-2 ANTIGENS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; ISOANTIGENS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; PREGNANCY; SEMEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

MUS;

EID: 65949108012     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.074658     Document Type: Article

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