Pregnancy estrogen drives the changes of T-lymphocyte subsets and cytokines and prolongs the survival of H-Y skin graft in murine model

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 2593-2599

  Lin, Xing Guang ^a   Zhou, Qi ^b   Wang, Li ^a   Gao, Ying ^a   Zhang, Wei Na ^a   Luo, Zhen Long ^a   Chen, Bi Cheng ^c   Chen, Zhong Hua ^a   Chang, Sheng ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Estrogen; H Y antigen; Murine; Pregnancy; Regulatory T cell

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HY ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; H-Y ANTIGEN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 79851490631     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2010.18.019     Document Type: Article

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