Peripheral blood NK cells reflect changes in decidual NK cells in women with recurrent miscarriages

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-180

  Park, Dong Wook ^a   Lee, Hyun Joo ^a   Park, Chan Woo ^a   Hong, Sung Ran ^a   Kwak Kim, Joanne ^b,c   Yang, Kwang Moon ^a,b  

^a Catholic Kwandong University   (South Korea)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemokines; Decidual NK cell; Peripheral blood NK cell; Recurrent pregnancy losses

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD56; CHEMOKINE CCL3; CHEMOKINE CXCL12; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, IGG;

EID: 73949119035     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2009.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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