Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 334-338 , April 2010

Human Decidual NK Cells from Gravid Uteri and NK Cells from Cycling Endometrium are Distinct NK Cell Subsets

  • H.D. Kopcow

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Department of Medicine, Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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  • M. Eriksson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA
    • ,
  • T.F. Mselle

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA
    • ,
  • S.M. Damrauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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  • C.R. Wira

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA
    • ,
  • C.L. Sentman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA
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  • J.L. Strominger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 495 2733.

,Accepted 5 January 2010.

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PII: S0143-4004(10)00019-6

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2010.01.003

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 334-338 , April 2010

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