Natural killer cells and pregnancy

By A. Moffett-King. Nature reviews. Immunology, 2002

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Subfields: Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Combinations of Maternal KIR and Fetal HLA-C Genes Influence the Risk of Preeclampsia and Reproductive Success (2004, background): “Thus, the primary pathological defect in this disease is the failure of transformation of the uterine spiral arteries (2, 18).”
• Human Decidual Natural Killer Cells Are a Unique NK Cell Subset with Immunomodulatory Potential (2003, background): “Although the precise functions of dNK cells in vivo are still unknown, their proximity to the invading trophoblasts, which lack expression of classical HLA-A and -B antigens (5) but selectively express HLA-C and the nonclassical HLA-E, -G, and CD1d molecules (6–9), has led to the proposal that these”
• Immunology of placentation in eutherian mammals (2006, background): “A conspicuous feature of the decidua is the influx of a distinctive lymphocyte population of maternal uterine natural killer (NK) cell”
• MHC class I molecules and kirs in human history, health and survival (2005, background): “In the uterus, NK cells with a unique cell-surface phenotype function in menstruation and in pregnanc”