Decidual leucocyte populations in early to late gestation normal human pregnancy

PJ Williams, RF Searle, SC Robson, BA Innes… - Journal of reproductive …, 2009 - Elsevier
Most research on human decidual leucocytes to date has focused on the predominant
CD56+ uterine natural killer (uNK) cell population in early pregnancy. Few reports have
documented decidual leucocyte populations after 13 weeks gestation and in late pregnancy.
Placental bed (decidua basalis) and non-placental bed (decidua parietalis) biopsies from
normal pregnancies were taken from women undergoing termination of pregnancy in the 1st
and 2nd trimesters and following Caesarean section in the 3rd trimester …