About the Authors

Irit Manaster

Affiliation The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, IMRIC, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Debra Goldman-Wohl

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Human Placenta Research, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

Caryn Greenfield

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Human Placenta Research, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

Daphna Nachmani

Affiliation The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, IMRIC, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Pinchas Tsukerman

Affiliation The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, IMRIC, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Yaron Hamani

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Human Placenta Research, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

Simcha Yagel

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Human Placenta Research, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

Ofer Mandelboim

oferm@ekmd.huji.ac.il

Affiliation The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, IMRIC, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IM OM. Performed the experiments: IM DGW CG. Analyzed the data: IM OM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IM DGW CG DN PT YH SY OM. Wrote the paper: IM OM.