Human pregnancy up-regulates Tim-3 in innate immune cells for systemic immunity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 182, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 6618-6624

  Zhao, Jie ^a   Lei, Zhang ^a   Liu, Yanyan ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Zhang, Liang ^a   Fang, Haoshu ^a   Song, Chuanwang ^a   Wang, Xiaomei ^a   Zhang, Gui Mei ^a   Feng, Zuo Hua ^a   Huang, Bo ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4; MUCIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TIM 3; STAT6 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INDUCED ABORTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MONOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TH1 CELL; UPREGULATION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERLEUKIN-4; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MONOCYTES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77549084480     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0803876     Document Type: Article

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