Effect of extreme conditions of Antarctica on human leukocyte antigen-G in Indian expeditioners

• Main Authors: K P Mishra, A P Yadav, Y K Sharma, Lilly Ganju, S B Singh
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014
• Subjects: Antarctica - expeditioners - HLA-G - inflammation - serum - ship; Medicine; R; Antarctic; Indian; Maitri; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/f16551fc420843d3bebbda8fed2c112a

Background & objectives: Immune activation and inflammation play critical roles in the stressful environmental conditions like high altitude, extreme cold, etc. Human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) is a non classical major histocompatiblity complex class I (MHC class- I) protein, upregulated in the...