Major histocompatibility complex I mediates immunological tolerance of the trophoblast during pregnancy and may mediate rejection during parturition

Mediators of Inflammation

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rapacz Leonard, Anna ^a   Da̧browska, Małgorzata ^a   Janowski, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

BIRTH; CATTLE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MEMBRANE; HORSE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; MACROPHAGE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA PERFUSION; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; HORSES; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84899982861     PISSN: 09629351     EISSN: 14661861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/579279     Document Type: Review

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