Natural killer cell-mediated recognition of human trophoblast

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-18

  Biassoni, Roberto ^a   Bottino, Cristina ^a   Millo, Romano ^b   Moretta, Lorenzo ^a   Moretta, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

HLA; ITAM; ITIM; KIR; NK

Indexed keywords

CD94 ANTIGEN; CELL RECEPTOR; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0033081292     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scbi.1998.0108     Document Type: Article

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