Clinical implication of recent advances in our understanding of IL-17 and reproductive immunology

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 649-657

  Saito, Shigeru ^a   Nakashima, Akitoshi ^a   Ito, Mika ^a   Shima, Tomoko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

abortion; endometriosis; IL 17; pregnancy; preterm labor

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 17B; INTERLEUKIN 17C; INTERLEUKIN 17F; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 25; INTERLEUKIN 27; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; INTERLEUKIN 9; LYMPHOTOXIN; MICRORNA; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANDIDIASIS; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT REJECTION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLARIZATION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; T CELL DEPLETION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; TH9 CELL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-17; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TH1 CELLS; TH17 CELLS;

EID: 80052619004     PISSN: 1744666X     EISSN: 17448409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eci.11.49     Document Type: Review

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