Determination of clinical cellular immune markers in women with recurrent pregnancy loss

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 398-411

  Lee, Sung Ki ^a   Na, Baeg Ju ^a   Kim, Jee Yun ^a   Hur, Sung Eun ^a   Lee, Millina ^a   Gilman Sachs, Alice ^b   Kwak Kim, Joanne ^b  

^a Konyang University   (South Korea)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutoff value; Cytokines; Natural killer cell cytotoxicity; Natural killer cells; Recurrent pregnancy loss; TNF

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 10; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENT ABORTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TH1 TH2 BALANCE;

CUTOFF VALUE; CYTOKINES; NATURAL KILLER CELL CYTOTOXICITY; NATURAL KILLER CELLS; RECURRENT PREGNANCY LOSS; TNF-Α;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TH1-TH2 BALANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885484565     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aji.12137     Document Type: Article

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