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Our data identify many regulatory interactions that prevent harmful innate or adaptive immune responses in this environment. We develop a repository of ligand–receptor complexes and a statistical tool to predict the cell-type specificity of cell–cell communication via these molecular interactions.

There are three major subsets of decidual natural killer cells that have distinctive immunomodulatory and chemokine profiles. The cellular composition of human decidua reveals subsets of perivascular and stromal cells that are located in distinct decidual layers. Here we profile the transcriptomes of about 70,000 single cells from first-trimester placentas with matched maternal blood and decidual cells.

Trophoblast–decidual interactions underlie common diseases of pregnancy, including pre-eclampsia and stillbirth. During early human pregnancy the uterine mucosa transforms into the decidua, into which the fetal placenta implants and where placental trophoblast cells intermingle and communicate with maternal cells.
