Immunotherapy of patients with recurrent spontaneous miscarriage and idiopathic infertility: Does the immunization-dependent Th2 cytokine overbalance really matter?

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-160

  Wilczyński, Jacek R ^a,b,c   Radwan, Paweł ^a,d   Tchórzewski, Henryk ^e   Banasik, Małgorzata ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c Vita Med Outpatient Gynecological Clinic   (Poland)

^d Fertility Center Gameta   (Poland)

^e APC Medical Analyses   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Idiopathic infertility; Paternal lymphocyte immunization; Recurrent spontaneous miscarriage

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PREGNANCY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANTIGENS, CD; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MALE; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; TH1-TH2 BALANCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858705762     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: 16614917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00005-012-0161-6     Document Type: Article

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