Immunological microenvironments in the human vagina and cervix: mediators of cellular immunity are concentrated in the cervical transformation zone.

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Published in Biol Reprod on August 10, 2005

Authors

Jeffrey Pudney1, Alison J Quayle, Deborah J Anderson

Author Affiliations

1: Fearing Research Laboratory, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. jeffrey.pudney@bmc.org

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