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Accounting for the peripartum loss of granulated metrial gland cells, a natural killer cell population, from the pregnant mouse uterus.
Journal of leukocyte biology - 1 Feb 1996
Delgado S R, McBey B A, Yamashiro S, Fujita J, Kiso Y, Croy B A
Abstract excerpt
Natural killer (NK) cells become a prominent cell population in the rodent uterus during pregnancy. The mature, heavily granulated form of these cells is rare in virgin or postpartum uteri. Death, migration, or dedifferentiation could account for the disappearance of these cells from late gestation uteri. We asked whether uterine NK cells, also known as granulated metrial gland (GMG) cells, die in situ and if...
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