Distribution of decidual natural killer cells and macrophages in the neighbourhood of the trophoblast invasion front: A quantitative evaluation

Human Reproduction

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 8-17

  Helige, C ^a   Ahammer, H ^a   Moser, G ^a   Hammer, A ^a   Dohr, G ^a   Huppertz, B ^a   Sedlmayr, P ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decidua; Macrophages; Natural killer cells; Quantitative image analysis; Trophoblast invasion

Indexed keywords

CD163 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL INVASION; CELL NEIGHBORHOOD; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DECIDUAL MACROPHAGE; DECIDUAL NATURAL KILLER CELL; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MORPHOMETRICS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEIGHBORHOOD; PLACENTATION SITE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; TISSUE SECTION; TROPHOBLAST;

DECIDUA; MACROPHAGES; NATURAL KILLER CELLS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS; TROPHOBLAST INVASION;

CELL COUNT; CELL MOVEMENT; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DECIDUA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84890656368     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/det353     Document Type: Article

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