Single-cell reconstruction of the early maternal–fetal interface in humans

Nature

Volumn 563, Issue 7731, 2018, Pages 347-353

  Vento Tormo, Roser ^a,b   Efremova, Mirjana ^a   Botting, Rachel A ^c   Turco, Margherita Y ^b   Vento Tormo, Miquel ^d   Meyer, Kerstin B ^a   Park, Jong Eun ^a   Stephenson, Emily ^c   Polański, Krzysztof ^a   Goncalves, Angela ^a,e   Gardner, Lucy ^b   Holmqvist, Staffan ^b   Henriksson, Johan ^a   Zou, Angela ^a   Sharkey, Andrew M ^b   Millar, Ben ^c   Innes, Barbara ^c   Wood, Laura ^a   Wilbrey Clark, Anna ^a   Payne, Rebecca P ^c   Ivarsson, Martin A ^b   Lisgo, Steve ^c   Filby, Andrew ^c   Rowitch, David H ^b   Bulmer, Judith N ^c   Wright, Gavin J ^a   Stubbington, Michael J T ^a   Haniffa, Muzlifah ^a,c,f   Moffett, Ashley ^b   Teichmann, Sarah A ^a,g,h   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d YDEVS software development   (Spain)

^e GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^f NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR6; CXCL16 CHEMOKINE; RANTES; TRANSCRIPTOME; LIGAND; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA;

BLOOD; CELL; CELL COMPONENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN; RECONSTRUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DECIDUAL CELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL RECONSTRUCTION; STROMA CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TROPHOBLAST;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETUS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY, MATERNAL-FETAL; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIGANDS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; STROMAL CELLS; TRANSCRIPTOME; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 85056665737     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0698-6     Document Type: Article

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