The HLA-G cycle provides for both NK tolerance and immunity at the maternal-fetal interface

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 43, 2015, Pages 13312-13317

  Tilburgs, Tamara ^a   Evans, J Henry ^a   Crespo, Ângela C ^a,b   Strominger, Jack L ^a  

^a Harvard University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Decidua; HCMV; Human; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; HLA G ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 2DL4; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; CYTOKINE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOSOME; EXTRAVILLOUS TROPHOBLAST; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNALIZATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROGOCYTOSIS; TROPHOBLAST; UBIQUITINATION; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREGNANCY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOKINES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HLA-G ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PREGNANCY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84945561041     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1517724112     Document Type: Article

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