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The maternal immune system in health and disease
1Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, School of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan. iwatani@sahs.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology
|December 29, 1998
Abstract:
Recent studies have clarified some characteristics of trophoblast and immune cells in the decidua and peripheral blood during pregnancy and the roles they play in the maternal immune system, and have added further evidence to the theory that maternal T helper cell type 1/2 cytokine balance shifts towards T helper cell type 2 dominance during pregnancy.