NKG2D blockade inhibits poly(I:C)-triggered fetal loss in wild type but not in IL-10-/- mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 190, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3639-3647

  Thaxton, Jessica E ^a   Nevers, Tania ^a   Lippe, Eliana O ^a   Blois, Sandra M ^b   Saito, Shigeru ^c   Sharma, Surendra ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 10; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2D; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID EARLY INDUCIBLE 1 PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS RESORPTION; FETUS WASTAGE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; EMBRYO LOSS; FEMALE; FETAL RESORPTION; INTERLEUKIN-10; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NK CELL LECTIN-LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY K; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEINS; POLY I-C; PREGNANCY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UP-REGULATION; UTERUS;

EID: 84875418958     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1203488     Document Type: Article

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