Impaired decidual natural killer cell regulation of vascular remodelling in early human pregnancies with high uterine artery resistance

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 322-332

  Fraser, Rupsha ^a   Whitley, Guy Stj ^a   Johnstone, Alan P ^a   Host, Amanda J ^a   Sebire, Neil J ^b   Thilaganathan, Baskaran ^c   Cartwright, Judith E ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

apoptosis; decidua; invasion; natural killer cell; pre eclampsia; pregnancy; spiral artery; trophoblast

Indexed keywords

FAS LIGAND;

APOPTOSIS; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; DECIDUA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE REGENERATION; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANTIGENS, CD56; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; DECIDUA; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TNF-RELATED APOPTOSIS-INDUCING LIGAND; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84867572478     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: 10969896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.4057     Document Type: Article

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