Natural Killer cells: Keepers of pregnancy in the turnstile of the environment

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 339-347

  Karimi, Khalil ^a   Arck, Petra Clara ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developmental programming; Immunosurveillance; Natural killer cells; Reproduction; Stress

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; GALECTIN 1; GLUCOCORTICOID; PROGESTERONE;

BRAIN FUNCTION; DECIDUA; DRUG MECHANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS WASTAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL SMOKING; MATERNAL STRESS; MATERNAL WELFARE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA FUNCTION; POLLUTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD56; DECIDUA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, IGG; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951623599     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2009.09.015     Document Type: Review

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