Title | Immunobiology of Reproduction [electronic resource] / edited by Joan S. Hunt |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1994 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8422-9 |
Descript | XX, 351 p. online resource |
I. Hematopoietic Cells in Reproductive Tissues -- 1. Immunobiological Characterization of the Trophoblast-Decidual Interface in Human Pregnancy -- 2. Immunity in the Human Male Reproductive Tract -- 3. Endometriosis: Immune Cells and Their Products -- II. Growth Factors/Cytokines in the Female Reproductive Tract and Placenta -- 4. Cytokines and Pregnancy Recognition -- 5. Role of Locally Produced Growth Factors in Human Placental Growth and Invasion with Special Reference to Transforming Growth Factors -- 6. Uterine Epithelial GM-CSF and Its Interlocutory Role During Early Pregnancy in the Mouse -- 7. Tilt Toward TH2 in Successful Pregnancy -- 8. Use of the Osteopetrotic Mouse for Studying Macrophages in the Reproductive Tract -- III. Growth Factor Networks in Pregnancy Loss and Cancer -- 9. Novel Transforming Growth Factor Betas (TGF?2) in Pregnancy and Cancer -- 10. Tumor Necrosis Factor a: Potential Relationships with Cancers of the Female Reproductive Tract -- IV. Placental Expression of Major Histocompatibility Complex and Associated Genes -- 11. MHC Gene Expression in Placentas of Domestic Animals -- 12. MHC-Linked Genes and Their Role in Growth and Reproduction -- 13. Molecular Regulatory Mechanisms That Repress Classical HLA Class I Gene Expression in Human Placenta -- V. Experimental Models of MHC Gene Expression -- 14. Developmental Regulation of MHC Class I Gene Expression in Mice -- 15. Overexpression of Class I MHC in Murine Trophoblast and Increased Rates of Spontaneous Abortion -- VI Immunological Aspects of Human Infertility -- 16. Mechanism of Self-Tolerance and Autoimmune Disease Pathogenesis: Analysis Based on Ovarian Autoimmune Models -- 17. Immunobiological Effects of Vasectomy and Vasovasostomy in the Rat Model -- 18. Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Placental Development -- 19. Immunotherapy for Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion -- 20. New Horizons in the Evaluation and Treatment of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss -- Author Index