Review: HCG, preeclampsia and regulatory T cells

Placenta

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Norris, W ^a   Nevers, T ^a   Sharma, S ^a   Kalkunte, S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Human chorionic gonadotropin; Preeclampsia; T regulatory cells; Uterine natural killer cells

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 79952002321     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2011.01.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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