Changes in fetal thymic immune cell populations in a sheep model of intrauterine inflammation

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 740-747

  Melville, Jacqueline M ^a   Bischof, Robert J ^a   Meeusen, Els N ^a   Westover, Alana J ^a   Moss, Timothy J M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

fetal; inflammation; preterm; sheep; thymus

Indexed keywords

CD45RB ANTIGEN; HERMES ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL POPULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAUTERINE INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84863529018     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719111432873     Document Type: Article

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