Control of uterine microenvironment by Foxp3+ cells facilitates embryo implantation

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Teles, Ana ^a,b   Schumacher, Anne ^a   Kühnle, Marie Cristine ^c   Linzke, Nadja ^a   Thuere, Catharina ^a   Reichardt, Peter ^a   Tadokoro, Carlos Eduardo ^d   Hämmerling, Günter J ^c   Zenclussen, Ana Claudia ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fibrosis; Implantation; Inflammation; Pregnancy; Regulatory T cells

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; CXCL3 CHEMOKINE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 130; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 9; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3BETA; PROTEIN P53; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFLAMMATION; LASER MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SEMINAL PLASMA; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINAL LAVAGE;

EID: 84883773108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00158     Document Type: Article

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