Decidual natural killer cells regulate vessel stability: Implications for impaired spiral artery remodelling

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 110, Issue , 2015, Pages 54-60

  Fraser, Rupsha ^a   Whitley, Guy St J ^a   Thilaganathan, Baskaran ^a   Cartwright, Judith E ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decidua; Endothelium; Natural killer; Pre eclampsia; Remodelling; Spiral artery

Indexed keywords

INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DECIDUAL NATURAL KILLER CELL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE SPIRAL ARTERY REMODELLING IMPAORMENT; UTERUS DISEASE; VASCULAR REMODELING; ADULT; ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECIDUA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; TRANSFORMED CELL LINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ARTERIES; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; DECIDUA; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84931090211     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: 18727603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jri.2015.04.003     Document Type: Article

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