During pregnancy, a delicate balance of innate and adaptive immune responses at the
maternal–fetal interface promotes survival of the semi‐allogeneic embryo and, at the same …

The FDA recently approved an agonistic anti-CD30 drug conjugate, Brentuximab vedotin, for
the treatment for CD30-positive lymphomas. The potent clinical activity of Brentuximab …

Laškarin G, Tokmadžić VS, Štrbo N, Bogović T, Szekeres‐Bartho J, Randić L, Podack ER,
Rukavina D. Progesterone induced blocking factor (PIBF) mediates progesterone induced …

BACKGROUND: The mannose receptor (MR) is involved in the initiation of the immune
response and regulation of homeostasis during inflammation and tissue remodeling …

Objective: To distinguish endocrine and paracrine influences on leukocyte subpopulations
at uterine and tubal implantation sites. Design: Retrospective immunohistochemical study …

Laskarin G, Faust Zs, Štrbo N, SotoŠek V, Szekeres‐Bartho J, Podack ER, Rukavina D.
Progesterone directly and indirectly affects perforin expression in cytolytic cells. AJRI 1999; …

Citation Veljkovic Vujaklija D, Gulic T, Sucic S, Nagata K, Ogawa K, Laskarin G, Saito S,
Haller H, Rukavina D. First trimester pregnancy decidual natural killer cells contain and …

Uterine and peripheral natural killer (NK) cells represent phenotypically and functionally
distinct populations. Decidual NK cells resemble the CD56bright peripheral NK subset in …

We review recent studies of two cytokines IL-15 and IL-18, showing that they are the critical
cytokines controlling uterine NK cell cytokine production and cytolytic potential. Further, IL …

Tokmadz̆ić VS, Tsuji Y, Bogović T, Laškarin G, Cupurdija K, Štrbo N, Koyama K, Okamura
H, Podack ER, Rukavina D. IL‐18 is present at the maternal‐fetal interface and enhances …