Experimental endometriosis in immunocompromised mice after adoptive transfer of human leukocytes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2519-2524

  Bruner Tran, Kaylon L ^a   Carvalho Macedo, Alessandra C ^a,b   Duleba, Antoni J ^c   Crispens, Marta A ^a   Osteen, Kevin G ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; immune cells; immunocompromised mice

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LEUKOCYTE; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ADULT; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR COMMON GAMMA SUBUNIT; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 77952103760     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.05.076     Document Type: Article

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