Granulated lymphocytes of pregnancy

Biology of Natural Killer Cells

1989 • 2,970 citations

Bidirectional cytokine interactions in the maternal-fetal relationship: is successful pregnancy a TH2 phenomenon?

1993 • 2,828 citations

Blastocyst implantation depends on maternal expression of leukaemia inhibitory factor

1992 • 2,004 citations

Cytotoxicity mediated by T cells and natural killer cells is greatly impaired in perforin-deficient mice

1994 • 1,772 citations

A Class I Antigen, HLA-G, Expressed in Human Trophoblasts

1990 • 1,417 citations

The relationship of CD16 (Leu-11) and Leu-19 (NKH-1) antigen expression on human peripheral blood NK cells and cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

1986 • 1,106 citations

Utilization of the beta and gamma chains of the IL-2 receptor by the novel cytokine IL-15.

1994 • 1,008 citations

Cloning of Immunoglobulin-Superfamily Members Associated with HLA-C and HLA-B Recognition by Human Natural Killer Cells

1995 • 735 citations

Effects of transforming growth factor beta on the functions of natural killer cells: depressed cytolytic activity and blunting of interferon responsiveness.

1986 • 579 citations

Specificity and function of T cells bearing γδ receptors

1988 • 570 citations

P58 molecules as putative receptors for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules in human natural killer (NK) cells. Anti-p58 antibodies reconstitute lysis of MHC class I-protected cells in NK clones displaying different specificities.

1993 • 537 citations

The synepitheliochorial placenta of ruminants: Binucleate cell fusions and hormone production

1992 • 495 citations

The Ly-49 and NKR-P1 Gene Families Encoding Lectin-Like Receptors on Natural Killer Cells: The NK Gene Complex

1993 • 465 citations

The CD69 receptor: a multipurpose cell-surface trigger for hematopoietic cells

1994 • 457 citations

DNA sequence analysis of NKG2, a family of related cDNA clones encoding type II integral membrane proteins on human natural killer cells.

1991 • 430 citations

Prominence of γδ T cells in the ruminant immune system

1991 • 427 citations

Human NKR-P1A. A disulfide-linked homodimer of the C-type lectin superfamily expressed by a subset of NK and T lymphocytes.

1994 • 408 citations

Human trophoblast and the choriocarcinoma cell line BeWo express a truncated HLA Class I molecule.

1990 • 393 citations

Interaction of Fc receptor (CD16) ligands induces transcription of interleukin 2 receptor (CD25) and lymphokine genes and expression of their products in human natural killer cells.

1988 • 373 citations

Localization of Transforming Growth Factor-β at the Human Fetal-Maternal Interface: Role in Trophoblast Growth and Differentiation1

1992 • 357 citations

NKB1: a natural killer cell receptor involved in the recognition of polymorphic HLA-B molecules.

1994 • 343 citations

Heterodimerization of the IL-2 receptor β- and γ-chain cytoplasmic domains is required for signalling

1994 • 338 citations

Immunocytochemical characterization of the unusual large granular lymphocytes in human endometrium throughout the menstrual cycle

1989 • 314 citations

Human implantation : cell biology and immunology

1995 • 298 citations

CD3^-Leukocytes Present in the Human Uterus During Early Placentation: Phenotypic and Morphologic Characterization of the CD56⁺⁺Population

1990 • 274 citations

On the nature and function of human uterine granular lymphocytes

1991 • 267 citations

Oligosaccharide ligands for NKR-P1 protein activate NK cells and cytotoxicity

1994 • 256 citations

The enigma of the natural killer cell

1995 • 236 citations

Granulated Metrial Gland Cells

1989 • 212 citations

Screening for cytokine messenger ribonucleic acids in purified human decidual lymphocyte populations by the reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction.

1994 • 207 citations

The developmental relationship between NK cells and T cells

1992 • 183 citations

Allorecognition by NK cells: nonself or no self?

1992 • 182 citations

Ly-49 multigene family expressed by IL-2-activated NK cells.

1994 • 180 citations

Resistance of HLA-G and HLA-A2 Transfectants to Lysis by Decidual NK Cells

1994 • 179 citations

Localization of fetal major histocompatibility complex antigens and maternal leukocytes in murine placenta. Implications for maternal-fetal immunological relationship.

1989 • 163 citations

Immunohistological characterization of lymphoid cell populations in the early human placental bed.

1984 • 147 citations

Granulated metrial gland cells of pregnant mouse uterus are natural killer-like cells that contain perforin and serine esterases.

1990 • 144 citations

PGE2-mediated immunosuppression by first trimester human decidual cells blocks activation of maternal leukocytes in the decidua with potential anti-trophoblast activity

1989 • 134 citations

Modulation of Muc-1 mucin expression in the mouse uterus during the estrus cycle, early pregnancy and placentation

1993 • 131 citations

Functional ambivalence of the Kp43 (CD94) NK cell-associated surface antigen.

1995 • 124 citations

Immunology: Expression of perforin, granzyme A and TIA-1 by human uterine CD56+ NK cells implies they are activated and capable of effector functions

1993 • 115 citations

Cell populations in the human early pregnancy decidua: natural killer activity and response to interleukin-2 of CD56-positive large granular lymphocytes.

1990 • 114 citations

Murine trophoblast can be killed by lymphokine-activated killer cells.

1989 • 113 citations

Immunomorphologic Studies of Human Decidua - Associated Lymphoid Cells in Normal Early Pregnancy

1995 • 112 citations

Variation during the menstrual cycle of immune cell populations in human endometrium

1991 • 110 citations

Uterine large granular lymphocytes: A possible role in embryonic implantation?

1990 • 105 citations

Activation of uterine intraepithelial γδ T cell receptor‐positive lymphocytes during pregnancy

1993 • 98 citations

Granulated metrial gland cells: A natural killer cell subset of the pregnant murine uterus

1993 • 95 citations

Normal murine and porcine embryos recruit NK cells to the uterus

1988 • 94 citations

The two-chain structure of high-affinity IL-2 receptors

1987 • 93 citations

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor messenger ribonucleic acid expression in rat ovary.

1995 • 90 citations

Immunology: Production of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor by human trophoblast cells and by decidual large granular lymphocytes

1994 • 89 citations

Evaluation of the pregnancy immunotrophism hypothesis by assessment of the reproductive performance of young adult mice of genotype scid/scid.bg/bg

1990 • 89 citations

Site-directed differences in the immune response to the fetus.

1989 • 85 citations

Maternal/fetal interactions: the role of the MHC class I molecule HLA-G.

1993 • 84 citations

Mouse Granulated Metrial Gland Cells Originate by Local Activation of Uterine Natural Killer Lymphocytes1

1991 • 83 citations

Gene expression and secretion of cytokines and cytokine receptors from highly purified CD56⁺ natural killer cells stimulated with interleukin‐2, interleukin‐7 and interleukin‐12

1993 • 77 citations

Characterization of immune effector cells present in early murine decidua

1985 • 75 citations

Suppression of lymphocyte alloreactivity by early gestational human decidua

1988 • 73 citations

p40, a novel surface molecule involved in the regulation of the non‐major histocompatibility complex‐restricted cytolytic activity in humans

1995 • 73 citations

Products of lipopolysaccharide-activated macrophages (tumor necrosis factor-alpha, transforming growth factor-beta) but not lipopolysaccharide modify DNA synthesis by rat trophoblast cells exhibiting the 80-kDa lipopolysaccharide-binding protein.

1989 • 72 citations

Release of a transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta 2-related suppressor factor from postimplantation murine decidual tissue can be correlated with the detection of a subpopulation of cells containing RNA for TGF-beta 2.

1992 • 70 citations

Prostaglandin E2-induced changes in the phenotype, morphology, and lytic activity of IL-2-activated natural killer cells.

1993 • 68 citations

TCR gamma delta cells--minor redundant T cell subset or specialized immune system component?

1989 • 66 citations

Recent developments in the human maternal-fetal immune interaction

1991 • 64 citations

Identification of a unique lymphocyte subpopulation in the sheep uterus.

1988 • 64 citations

Demonstration of YAC target cell lysis by murine granulated metrial gland cells

1991 • 59 citations

Murine granulated metrial gland cells at uterine implantation sites are natural killer lineage cells.

1991 • 56 citations

Leucocyte membrane antigens on mouse granulated metrial gland cells

1989 • 56 citations

Quantitative and Qualitative Changes in the Intraepithelial Lymphocyte Population in the Uterus of Nonpregnant and Pregnant Sheep

1992 • 55 citations

Expression on cells of early human pregnancy decidua, of the p75, IL-2 and p145, IL-4 receptor proteins.

1991 • 55 citations

Granulated Metrial Gland Cells: Pregnancy Specific Leukocytes?

1991 • 53 citations

Prostaglandin-mediated inactivation of natural killer cells in the murine decidua

1990 • 52 citations

Expression of Adhesion Molecules by Human Decidual Large Granular Lymphocytes

1993 • 50 citations

Histological Assessment of the Mouse Uterus from Birth to Puberty for the Appearance of LGL-1+ Natural Killer Cells1

1992 • 50 citations

Natural killer cells

1992 • 49 citations

Immunological studies of mouse decidual cells. I. Membrane markers of decidual cells in the days after implantation.

1978 • 49 citations

The Effect of Interleukin 2 and Transforming Growth Factor-β2 (TGF-β2) on the Proliferation and Natural Killer Activity of Decidual CD16- CD56bright Natural Killer Cells

1993 • 47 citations

Evaluation of intrauterine immune suppression during pregnancy in a species with epitheliochorial placentation.

1987 • 45 citations

The response of human decidual leukocytes to IL-2

1992 • 44 citations

Involvement of beta 2-integrins in the migration of human natural killer cells.

1992 • 42 citations

Interactions between the immune system and the ruminant conceptus.

1995 • 40 citations

An analysis of the uterine lymphocyte-derived hybridoma cell line GWM 1–2 for expression of receptors for estrogen, progesterone and interleukin 2

1996 • 39 citations

TGF-β2 gene and protein expression in maternal and fetal tissues at various stages of murine development

1993 • 39 citations

T-cell receptor heterogeneity of gamma delta T-cell clones from human female reproductive tissues.

1993 • 38 citations

Elevated endometrial natural killer cell activity during early porcine pregnancy is conceptus-mediated

1993 • 36 citations

Electron microscopy of granule release in metrial gland cells of the pregnant rat

1972 • 32 citations

Interferon-gamma enhances mRNA and surface expression of Class I antigen on human extravillous trophoblast

1990 • 31 citations

Normal development and function of natural killer cells in CD3 epsilon delta 5/delta 5 mutant mice.

1995 • 30 citations

Differential Expression of Adhesion and Homing Molecules by Human Decidual and Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes in Early Pregnancy

1994 • 28 citations

Pregnancy‐Associated Uterine Granulated Metrial Gland Cells in Mutant and Transgenic Mice

1996 • 28 citations

NKR-P1+ Cells in the Rat Uterus: Granulated Metrial Gland Cells are of the Natural Killer Cell Lineage1

1994 • 28 citations

Granulated metrial gland cells — not part of the natural killer cell lineage?

1994 • 24 citations

The differentiation of granulated metrial gland cells in chimeric mice and the effect of uterine shielding during irradiation.

1984 • 22 citations

Immunohistochemical analysis of β1-integrin receptors displayed by murine uterine natural killer cells over the course of successful pregnancy

1994 • 21 citations

Regional sublocalization of the human CD69 gene to chromosome bands 12p12.3‐p13.2, the predicted region of the human natural killer cell gene complex

1993 • 21 citations

Rat granulated metrial gland cells differentiate in pregnant chimeric mice and may be cytotoxic for mouse trophoblast

1989 • 19 citations

GM-CSF and CSF-1 stimulate DNA synthesis but not cell proliferation in short-term cultures of mid-gestation murine trophoblast

1994 • 17 citations

Quantitative analysis of intraepithelial large granular lymphocyte distribution and maternofetal cellular interactions in the synepitheliochorial placenta of the deer.

1995 • 15 citations

Granulated Lymphoid Cells of the Pregnant Uterus: Morphological and Functional Features

1994 • 11 citations

Enzyme histochemistry of the regressing rat decidua and metrial gland

1993 • 11 citations

A monoclonal antibody, 4H12, recognizes a surface antigen found on granulated metrial gland cells in the murine decidua

1990 • 9 citations

A Review of the Natural Killer Cell Lineage in the Uterus of the Mouse and of the Pig

1994 • 9 citations

The application of scid mouse technology to questions in reproductive biology.

1993 • 5 citations

Induction of lymphokine-activated killer cells from nude mouse spleen cells by interleukin-4

1993 • 5 citations

Time course of the differentiation of granulated metrial gland cells in chimeric mice

1988 • 5 citations