Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 501-506 , June 2009

NK Cells Detect Changes in Adaptive Immunity within Mouse Decidua from Gestation Day Eight

  • K. Hatta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, Room 813, 18 Stuart Street, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 613 533 6000x74917; fax: +1 613 533 6796.
    • ,
  • M.J. van den Heuvel

      Affiliations

    • Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
    • ,
  • B.A. Croy

      Affiliations

    • Anatomy and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada

,Accepted 2 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.04.001

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Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 501-506 , June 2009

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