Vitamin D deficiency may be a risk factor for recurrent pregnancy losses by increasing cellular immunity and autoimmunity

Human Reproduction

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 208-219

  Ota, Kuniaki ^a   Dambaeva, Svetlana ^a   Han, Ae Ra ^a   Beaman, Kenneth ^a   Gilman Sachs, Alice ^a   Kwak Kim, Joanne ^a  

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

Author keywords

Autoimmune abnormalities; Natural killer cells; Recurrent pregnancy loss; Th1; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; CYTOTOXICITY ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANT WOMAN; RECURRENT PREGNANCY LOSS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

AUTOIMMUNE ABNORMALITIES; NATURAL KILLER CELLS; RECURRENT PREGNANCY LOSS; TH1; VITAMIN D;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID; AUTOIMMUNITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; K562 CELLS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84893113042     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/det424     Document Type: Article

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