Immune cells in the placental bed

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 281-294

  Bulmer, Judith N ^a   Williams, Paula J ^a   Lash, Gendie E ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decidua; Endometrium; Macrophage; T cell; Uterine natural killer cell

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD57 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR3; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR2; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CXCL11 CHEMOKINE; FRACTALKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HLA ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE DERIVED CHEMOKINE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; SECONDARY LYMPHOID TISSUE CHEMOKINE; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NIDATION; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; REVIEW; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

EID: 76749141036     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.082763jb     Document Type: Article

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