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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Main Author: A Voskoboynik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 2009-03-01
Series:Invertebrate Survival Journal
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Online Access:http://www.isj.unimo.it/articoli/ISJ-Suppl-002.pdf