JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE Journal of Reproductive Immunology IMMUNOLOGY 47 (2000) 207—208 www.elsevier.com locate /jreprimm Contents (Volume 47) No. 1 BASIC IMMUNOLOGY The short forms of HLA-G are unlikely to play a role in pregnancy because they are not expressed at the cell surface D.R.J. Bainbridge, S.A. Ellis, I.L. Sargent Compton, Oxford, UK) ANIMAL SCIENCES Hypothalamo-pituitary control of the cell-mediated immunity in rat embryos: role of LHRH in regulation of lymphocyte proliferation L.A. Zakharova, I.V. Malyukova, E.V. Proshlyakova, A.A. Potapova, A.Y. Sapronova, P.V. Ershov, M.V. Ugrumov (Moscow, Russia) CLINICAL STUDIES Inhibitory effects of human seminal plasma on an ELISA used to detect anti-sperm antibodies: Implications for the determination of sperm quality N.Q. Lu, S.W. Zha (Nanjing, PR China) null mutation in HLA-G is not associated with preeclampsia or intrauterine growth retardation C. Aldrich, M.S. Verp, M.A. Walker, C. Ober (Chicago, IL) Tumor necrosis factor-x% soluble receptor p55 (sTNFp55) and risk of preeclampsia in Peruvian women S.E. Sanchez, C. Zhang, M.A. Williams, S. Ware-Jauregui, G. Larrabure, V. Bazul, A. Farrand (Lima, Peru; Seattle, WA) IL-18 in pregnancy: the elevation of IL-18 in maternal peripheral blood during labour and complicated pregnancies A. Ida, Y. Tsuji, J. Muranaka, R. Kanazawa, Y. Nakata, S. Adachi, H. Okamura, K. Koyama (Nishinomiya, Japan) ABSTRACTS IN REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY Guest editorial K. Koyama (Hyogo, Japan) BASIC IMMUNOLOGY Cytokine network at the feto-maternal interface S. Saito (Toyama, Japan). . . Cytokine regulation of apoptotic susceptibility in a human endometrial epithelial cell line .. Tanaka, N. Umesaki (Osaka, Japan). . . Murine fetal resorption and experimental pre-eclampsia are induced by both excessive Th] and Th2 activation S. Hayakawa, T. Fujikawa, H. Fukuoka, F. Chisima, M. Karasaki-Suzuki, E. Ohkoshi, H. Ohi, T. Kiyoshi Fujii, M. Tochigi, K. Satoh, T. Shimizu, S. Nishinarita, N. Nemoto, I. Sakurai (Tokyo, Japan). ANIMAL SCIENCES Molecular and immunological approaches to mammalian fertilization T. Mori, M.W. Guo, E. Sato, T. Baba, S. Takasaki, E. Mori (Tokyo, Sendai, Ibaraki, Japan) . Analysis of B cell epitopes of a glycoprotein porcine zona pellucida (pZP1) M. Shigeta, A. Hasegawa, Y. Hamada, K. Koyama (Nishinomiya, Japan) CLINICAL STUDIES Plasma contact system, kallikrein—kinin system and antiphospholipid-protein anti- bodies in thrombosis and pregnancy I. Sugi. T. Makino (Kanagawa, Japan) Cytokine production in chorioamnionitis F. Saji, Y. Samejima, S. Kamiura, K. Sawai Suita, Japan) HTLV-I transmission from mother to child I. Fujino, Y. Nagata (Kagoshima, Japan) Contents of Volume 47 pes aSho ee n aa: eet eerer e