Placental Interleukin-15 Expression in Recurrent Miscarriage

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 402-410

  Toth, Bettina ^a   Haufe, Thomas ^b   Scholz, Christoph ^b   Kuhn, Christina ^b   Friese, Klaus ^b   Karamouti, Maria ^c   Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^c   Jeschke, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Extravillous trophoblast; Feto maternal interphase; NK cell; Th1 Th2

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 15; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-15; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TH1-TH2 BALANCE; TROPHOBLASTS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 78149489127     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2010.00879.x     Document Type: Article

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