New pre-conception immune biomarkers for clinical practice: Interleukin-18, interleukin-15 and TWEAK on the endometrial side, G-CSF on the follicular side

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-123

  Ledee N ^a,b   Petitbarat, M ^a   Rahmati, M ^a   Dubanchet, S ^a   Chaouat, G ^a   Sandra, O ^c   Perrier d'Hauterive, S ^b   Munaut, C ^b   Foidart, J M ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Embryo implantation; Endometrium; Oocyte quality; Uterine natural killer cells; Uterine receptivity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 18; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR WEAK INDUCER OF APOPTOSIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DEPLETION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEAL PHASE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE NATURAL KILLER CELL; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-15; INTERLEUKIN-18; MICE; OVULATION DETECTION; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTORS;

EID: 79952702948     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jri.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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