Natural killer-cell deficiency alters placental development in rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 145-158

  Renaud, Stephen J ^a,b   Scott, Regan L ^a,b   Chakraborty, Damayanti ^a,b   Rumi, Mohammad A K ^a,b   Soares, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Interleukin 15; Invasion; Natural killer cells; Placenta; Pregnancy; Spiral artery; Trophoblast; Vascular remodeling

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 15; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EDITING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MODEL; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPLEEN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-15; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN;

EID: 85022321836     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.116.142752     Document Type: Article

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