Pregnancy promotes tolerance to future offspring by programming selective dysfunction in long-lived maternal T cells

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 975-987

  Barton, Brendan M ^a   Xu, Rong ^b   Wherry, E John ^b   Porrett, Paige M ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloimmunization; Exhaustion; Fetomaternal; PD 1; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; FETAL ANTIGEN; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EFFECTOR CELL; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PUERPERIUM; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; FETUS; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FETUS; GRAFT REJECTION; MALE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 85017321423     PISSN: 07415400     EISSN: 19383673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.1A0316-135R     Document Type: Article

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