Term and preterm labor: Decreased suppressive activity and changes in composition of the regulatory T-cell pool

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 935-944

  Schober, Linda ^a   Radnai, Diana ^a   Schmitt, Edgar ^b   Mahnke, Karsten ^a   Sohn, Christof ^a   Steinborn, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pregnancy; Preterm labor; Regulatory T cells; Subsets of regulatory T cells; Term labor; Tolerance induction

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL SELECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LABOR; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ANTIGENS, CD; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 84870518947     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.2012.33     Document Type: Article

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