Local Immune regulation in human pregnancy : with focus on decidual macrophages
During pregnancy, the woman carries a fetus partly foreign to her immune system, because of the expression of paternal antigens. Despite this, the fetus is normally tolerated and not rejected, as is often the case with organs in allogeneic transplantations. Systemic changes in maternal blood occur d...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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Linköpings universitet, Klinisk immunologi
2007
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9985 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-85895-85-4 |