A role for vitamin D in placental immunology

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 201, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1950-1951

  Equils, Ozlem ^a,b   Hewison, Martin ^c  

^a Medical Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCITRIOL; CATHELICIDIN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; OXYGENASE; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; AUTOPHAGY; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DECIDUA; DENDRITIC CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; FETUS MORTALITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETTER; MATERNAL BLOOD; MONOCYTE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST; TUBERCULOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; TANZANIA;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TANZANIA; VITAMIN D;

EID: 77952577994     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652804     Document Type: Letter

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