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PLACENTA
卷 25, 期 4, 页码 297-307出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2003.08.019
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- NCRR NIH HHS [RR00167] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD37120, HD34215] Funding Source: Medline
The distribution of uterine leukocytes during the periimplantation period cannot be readily evaluated in human pregnancy. Using immunohistochemistry we examined the distribution of macrophages, natural killer (NK) cells, and T cells in the non-pregnant endometrium and in the decidua at early stages of implantation and pregnancy in the rhesus monkey. CD68+ macrophages, CD56+ lymphocytes and CD3+ T cells were present in the proliferative and secretory endometrium. The number of macrophages and CD56+ lymphocytes dramatically increased at implantation (day 14-15 of pregnancy) and continued to be high in early pregnancy decidua. Macrophages were conspicuously more numerous in proximity to implantation site (decidua basalis) as compared to sites peripheral to the developing placenta (decidua parietalis), and were found in close association with cytotrophoblasts adjacent to the decidua, as well as around arteries invaded by extravillous cytotrophoblasts. In contrast to macrophages, CD56+ lymphocytes were more evenly distributed throughout the decidua. Few CD3+ T cells were seen in pregnancy, being scattered in the endometrial stroma with occasional aggregate formation. The distribution of uterine leukocytes vis-a-vis trophoblasts at the rhesus monkey implantation site and in early pregnancy suggests different roles for macrophages and uterine NK cells in the response to trophoblast invasion. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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