Swine leukocyte antigen-DQ expression and its regulation by interferon-gamma at the maternal-fetal interface in pigs

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kim, Mingoo ^a   Seo, Heewon ^a   Choi, Yohan ^a   Shim, Jangsoo ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^b,c   Ka, Hakhyun ^a  

^a Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Female reproductive tract; Pig; Pregnancy; Reproductive immunology; SLA DQ; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; SEX HORMONE; SWINE LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GILT (SWINE); IMMUNE RESPONSE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC CELL; STROMA CELL; UTERUS; ANIMAL; BREEDING; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FETUS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE;

EID: 84860255988     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.094011     Document Type: Article

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