First trimester pregnancy loss and the expression of alternatively spliced NKp30 isoforms in maternal blood and placental tissue

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Shemesh, Avishai ^a   Tirosh, Dan ^b   Sheiner, Eyal ^b   Benshalom Tirosh, Neta ^b   Brusilovsky, Michael ^a   Segev, Rotem ^a   Rosental, Benyamin ^c   Porgador, Angel ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Isoforms; Natural killer; NCR; NKp30; Pregnancy loss

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL CYTOTOXICITY TRIGGERING RECEPTOR 1; NATURAL CYTOTOXICITY TRIGGERING RECEPTOR 3; NATURAL CYTOTOXICITY TRIGGERING RECEPTOR 3A; NATURAL CYTOTOXICITY TRIGGERING RECEPTOR 3B; NATURAL CYTOTOXICITY TRIGGERING RECEPTOR 3C; PLACENTAL GROWTH FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATERNAL BLOOD; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLACENTA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION;

EID: 84935044749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00189     Document Type: Article

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