Fetal-maternal alignment of regulatory T cells correlates with IL-10 and Bcl-2 upregulation in pregnancy

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 145-153

  Santner Nanan, Brigitte ^a   Straubinger, Kathrin ^b   Hsu, Peter ^a,c   Parnell, Grant ^a   Tang, Ben ^a   Xu, Bei ^d   Makris, Angela ^d   Hennessy, Annemarie ^d,e   Peek, Michael J ^a   Busch, Dirk H ^b   Da Costa, Clarissa Prazeres ^b   Nanan, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 10 RECEPTOR ALPHA; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FATHER; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SERUM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED CBA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84879647975     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1203165     Document Type: Article

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