T regulatory cells: Regulating both term and preterm labor?

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 919-920

  Gomez Lopez, Nardhy ^a   Laresgoiti Servitje, Estibalitz ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PANAMERICANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREGULATION; LABOR; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 84870535141     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.2012.48     Document Type: Note

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