Endocrine and immune system interactions during pregnancy

Immunobiology

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 42-47

  Brazão, Vânia ^a   Kuehn, Christian Collins ^a   dos Santos, Carla Domingues ^a   da Costa, Cássia Mariana Bronzon ^a   do Prado Júnior, José Clóvis ^a   Carraro Abrahão, Ana Amélia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Corticosterone levels; Nitric oxide (NO); NK cells; Peritoneal macrophages; Pregnancy; Splenocyte proliferation

Indexed keywords

CD161 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; NITRIC OXIDE; NATURAL KILLER CELL LECTIN LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PREGNANCY; RAT; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NK CELL LECTIN-LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY B; PREGNANCY; RATS;

EID: 84915748719     PISSN: 01712985     EISSN: 18783279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2014.09.005     Document Type: Article

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