Regulatory T cells and the immune pathogenesis of prenatal infection

Reproduction

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Rowe, Jared H ^a   Ertelt, James M ^a   Xin, Lijun ^a   Way, Sing Sing ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FETAL ANTIGEN; INACTIVATED VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; AUTOIMMUNITY; BREEDING; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EFFECTOR CELL; FETUS RESORPTION; FETUS WASTAGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INDUCED ABORTION; INFANT DISEASE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MATERNAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; T CELL DEPLETION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TROPHOBLAST; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84886654997     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0262     Document Type: Review

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