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Mini symposium. The major histocompatibility complex in pregnancy: Part II. Placental HLA-G protein expression in vivo: where and what for?
1 May 1999
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In contrast to HLA-A and -B class Ia genes that are down-regulated in human trophoblast cells, HLA-G class Ib molecules are expressed in the placenta throughout gestation. In addition to extravillous cytotrophoblast that invade the decidua basalis essentially, HLA-G was also observed in endothelial cells of fetal vessels in the chorionic villi as well as in amnion cells and amniotic fluid. Both membrane-bound and...
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