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

Overview

Journal Placenta

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Gynecology & Obstetrics
Physiology
Reproductive Medicine

Date 2010 Feb 23

PMID 20172608

Citations 27

Authors

H D Kopcow

M Eriksson

T F Mselle

S M Damrauer

C R Wira

C L Sentman

J L Strominger

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Abstract

Human NK cells from the decidua basalis of gravid uteri and from the cycling endometrium of women undergoing hysterectomy were isolated and compared by gene expression profiling using Affymetrix microarrays with probes representing approximately 47,400 transcripts. Substantial differences indicate that these two types of NK cells represent distinct subsets.

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