Chimerism a natural ability to tolerate kin, evolutionary traits connecting mammalian and protochordates
In the middle of the 20th century, Owen (1945, 1954) and Billingham et al. (1953) immunological studies suggested that fetal exposure to foreign antigens during pregnancy induce immunologic tolerance in the fetus. Recently, Mold et al. found that a substantial number of maternal cells crosses the pl...
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University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Invertebrate Survival Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.isj.unimo.it/articoli/ISJ-Suppl-002.pdf |