How cells of the immune system prepare the endometrium for implantation

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 358-364

  Teles, Ana ^a   Zenclussen, Ana Claudia ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

endometrium; immune cells; implantation; infertility; receptivity

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER;

APOPTOSIS; APPOSITION; BLASTOCYST; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INVASION; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GAMMA DELTA T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMPLANTATION; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; MUSHROOM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PINOPODE; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TH17 CELL; TIGHT JUNCTION; UTERUS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84903194150     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1383735     Document Type: Review

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