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Immunology: why the baby isn't thrown out
1Transplantation Biology Group, Hammersmith Hospital, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
The reason the maternal immune system does not reject a foetus may involve the downregulation of T-cell receptors specific for paternal antigens. A similar mechanism may help explain the remission seen in autoimmune patients during pregnancy.