Bierings M B, Adriaansen H J, Van Dijk J P
Department of Chemical Pathology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Placenta. 1988 Jul-Aug;9(4):387-96. doi: 10.1016/0143-4004(88)90051-3.
Using trypsinization and Percoll gradient centrifugation, mononuclear cell populations were prepared from human term placentae. These populations consist mainly of cytotrophoblast, which probably lacks transferrin receptors. In vitro, transferrin receptors appear on these mononuclear cells and on syncytiotrophoblast formed in vitro, independently, of cellular fusion and proliferative state.
