Expression of membrane form of the pregnancy associated protein TJ6 on decidual lymphocytes in the first trimester of pregnancy (CROSBI ID 96786)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Rubeša, Gordana ; Beaman, Kenneth ; Beer, Alan ; Haller, Herman ; Rukavina, Daniel
engleski
Expression of membrane form of the pregnancy associated protein TJ6 on decidual lymphocytes in the first trimester of pregnancy
TJ6, a newly described protein produced locally in the uterine decidua during pregnancy, may be involved in maintaining a unique immunological environment at the maternal-fetal interface. The aim of this study was to determine whether TJ6 is expressed as membrane form on decidual lymphocytes (DL), to define the phenotypes of TJ6m (membrane form TJ6) expressing cells and to analyze the fluorescence intensity of TJ6m expression. Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and DL were obtained from first trimester pregnancies undergoing elective termination and immunophenotyped for TJ6m and other cell surface antigens (CD3, CD8, CD19, CD56, CD16) by flow cytometry. This is the first study showing that TJ6 molecules are present on decidual lymphocytes in human pregnancy. TJ6m expression on PBL was not different from that of DL. However, a significantly higher percentage of double positive (TJ6m+CD3+, TJ6m+, CD8+, TJ6m+CD19+) cells were found in PBL when compared to DL. The average fluorescence intensity (AFI) for the TJ6m marker among cells with CD8+, CD19+ and CD56+ double positive was significantly higher in DL as compared with those of PBL. The AFI for granularity of double positive DL was significantly higher than observed in PBL.
pregnancy ; protein TJ6
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Podaci o izdanju
30 (-)
1996.
17-27
objavljeno
0165-0378
10.1016/0165-0378(96)00952-7
Povezanost rada
Temeljne medicinske znanosti