Transient impairment of NK cell function in an infant born to a mother with adult-onset Still's disease: Perinatal effect of maternal IL-18

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-274

  Shimizu, Masaki ^a   Sakakibara, Yasuhisa ^a   Kawano, Mitsuhiro ^a   Yachie, Akihiro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still's disease; Interleukin 18; Natural killer cell

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; INTERLEUKIN 18; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION SYNDROME; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-18; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; PREDNISOLONE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET;

EID: 84861229062     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2012.03.004     Document Type: Letter

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