CD4+CD25highFoxp3+ Cells Increased in the Peritoneal Fluid of Patients with Endometriosis

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 301-308

  Podgaec, Sergio ^a,b   Rizzo, Luiz Vicente ^b   Fernandes, Luiz Flavio Cordeiro ^a   Baracat, Edmund Chada ^a   Abrao, Mauricio Simoes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Endometriosis; Treg cells

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD4; ASCITIC FLUID; CELL SEPARATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; INTERLEUKIN-6; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84866150702     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2012.01173.x     Document Type: Article

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