Imitating a stress response: A new hypothesis about the innate immune system's role in pregnancy

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 721-729

  Schminkey, Donna L ^a   Groer, Maureen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRONECTIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HLA ANTIGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; DECIDUALIZATION; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOMETRIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MATURITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LABOR; LUTEAL PHASE; MACROPHAGE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STRESS; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; ANIMAL; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84899634800     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2014.03.013     Document Type: Article

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