Timed sexual intercourse facilitates the recruitment of uterine CD56 bright natural killer cells in women with infertility

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-124

  Kimura, Hidetaka ^a   Fukui, Atsushi ^a   Fujii, Shunsaku ^a   Yamaguchi, Eiji ^a   Kasai, Goichiro ^a   Mizunuma, Hideki ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CD56bright; Endometrium; NK cell; Seminal plasma; Sexual intercourse

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ARTICLE; BASAL BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD56; CHEMOTAXIS; COITUS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; OVULATION; RECEPTORS, IGG; UTERUS;

EID: 67650681833     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2009.00720.x     Document Type: Article

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