Human Decidual Natural Killer Cells Express the Receptor for and Respond to the Cytokine Interleukin 151
Open Access
- 1 April 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biology of Reproduction
- Vol. 62 (4), 959-968
- https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod62.4.959
Abstract
The natural killer (NK) cells that are present in the uterine mucosa (decidua) during early pregnancy have a distinctive phenotype, CD56bright CD16−.Keywords
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