To drive or be driven: The path of a mouse model of recurrent pregnancy loss

Reproduction

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Bonney, Elizabeth A ^a   Brown, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MOUSE MODEL; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; BREEDING; CBA MOUSE; DBA MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENT ABORTION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, INBRED DBA; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84898957716     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0583     Document Type: Article

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