Immunology of pregnancy
By: [edited by] Gil Mor.
Contributors: Mor, Gil.
Series: Medical intelligence unit; Medical intelligence unit (Unnumbered : 2003)
Publisher: Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com; Springer Science+Business Media
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Georgetown, Tex; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Pregnancy -- Immunological aspects; Pregnancy -- immunology; Immunity -- Pregnancy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evolution of the mammalian reproductive tract and placentation / Susan Richman and Frederick Naftolin; title: Toll-like receptors and pregnancy / Vikki M. Abrahams and Gil Mor; title: IL-10 and pregnancy / Shaun P. Murphy and Surendra Sharma; title: Th1/Th2 balance of the implantation site in humans / Shigeru Saito, Satomi Miyazaki, and Yasushi Sasaki; title: The regulation of human trophoblast apoptosis and survival during pregnancy / Shawn L. Straszewski-Chavez and Gil Mor; title: Macrophages and pregnancy / Gil Mor, Roberto Romero, and Vikki M. Abrahams; title: Potential role of glucocorticoids in the pathophysiology of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) / Seth Guller, Yuehong Ma, and Men-Jean Lee; title: NK cells and pregnancy / Mikael Eriksson, Satarupa Basu, and Charles L. Sentman; title: The role of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) on implantation and immunotolerance of the fetus / Sophia N. Kalantaridou ... [et al.]; title: Indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase-dependent T cell suppression and pregnancy / Babak Baban, Phillip R. Chandler, and Andrew L. Mellor; title: Leukemia inhibitory factor in reproduction / Levent M. Senturk and Aydin Arici; title: Characterization of human dendritic cells at the materno-fetal interface / Ulrike Kämmerer ... [et al.]; title: MHC molecules of the preimplantation embryo and trophoblast / Martina Comiskey, Carol M. Warner, and Danny J. Schust; title: Actions of seminal plasma cytokines in priming female reproductive tract receptivity for embryo implantation / Sarah A. Robertson ... [et al.]; title: B7 family molecules in the placenta / Margaret G. Petroff; title: The role of regulatory T cells in materno-fetal tolerance / Varuna R. Aluvihare and Alexander G. Betz; title: The eutherian fetoembryonic defense system hypothesis: an update / Gary F. Clark ... [et al.]; title: The nature and role of the decidual T cells / Lucia Mincheva-Nilsson and Vladimir Baranov; title: Trophoblast cells as immune regulators / Gil Mor and Vikki M. Abrahams; title: Inherited thrombophilias and early pregnancy loss / Jens Langhoff-Roos ... [et al.]; title: Bi-directional cell trafficking during pregnancy: long-term consequences for human health / Kristina M. Adams and J. Lee Nelson; title: Term and preterm parturition / Roberto Romero ... [et al.]; title: Interleukin-1 and implantation / Jan-S. Krüssel; title: Immunology and pregnancy losses: HLA, autoantibodies and cellular immunity / Joanne Kwak-Kim, Joon Woo Kim, and Alice Gilman-Sachs.