Immunomorphological Changes in the Rhesus Monkey Endometrium and Decidua During the Menstrual Cycle and Early Pregnancy

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 309-321

  Bondarenko, Gennadiy I ^a   Durning, Maureen ^a   Golos, Thaddeus G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Decidua; Endometrium; Natural killer cell; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MORPHOMETRICS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MACACA MULATTA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84866176975     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2012.01174.x     Document Type: Article

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