Splenectomy Delays Uterine Natural Killer Cell Recruitment to Implantation Sites and Prolongs Pregnancy in Mice

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1221-1228

  Zavan, Bruno ^a   Carvalho, Celiane Cardoso ^a   Rossi, Wagner Costa ^a   Paffaro, Andréa Mollica Amarante ^a   Paffaro, Valdemar Antonio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALFENAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Mouse pregnancy; Natural killer cell; Spleen; Timing of parturition

Indexed keywords

LECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; SPLENECTOMY;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MICE; PLANT LECTINS; PREGNANCY; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; STEM CELLS; UTERUS;

DOLICHOS BIFLORUS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 84862490385     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22498     Document Type: Article

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