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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Brandy Houser
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-22342 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Houser Brandy L BL Tilburgs Tamara T Hill Jonathan J Nicotra Matthew L ML Strominger Jack L JL
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20110121 4
Several important events occur at the maternal-fetal interface, including generation of maternal-fetal tolerance, remodeling of the uterine smooth muscle and its spiral arteries and glands, and placental construction. Fetal-derived extravillous trophoblasts come in direct contact with maternal decidual leukocytes. Macrophages represent ∼20% of the leukocytes at this interface. In this study, two distinct subsets of CD14(+) decidual macrophages (dMs) are found to be present in first-trimester dec ...[more]