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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Main Author: Gustafsson Lidström, Charlotte
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Linköpings universitet, Klinisk immunologi 2007
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9985
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