Nature Medicine
- 12, 991 - 992 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0906-991
Killers become builders during pregnancy
Philippe Le Bouteiller & Julie Tabiasco
The authors are at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U563, Hôpital Purpan, BP 3028, 31024 Toulouse cedex 3, France, and they are members of EMBIC, a European Network of Excellence. philippe.le-bouteiller@toulouse.inserm.fr
kanjiCirculating natural killer cells might be best known for their ability to disable and maim target cells. But in the pregnant uterus of humans these cells seem to have a positive effect, regulating placental development and angiogenesis (pages 1065–1074).
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