The Fetal Allograft Revisited: Does the Study of an Ancient Invertebrate Species Shed Light on the Role of Natural Killer Cells at the Maternal-Fetal Interface?

Human pregnancy poses a fundamental immunological problem because the placenta and fetus are genetically different from the host mother. Classical transplantation theory has not provided a plausible solution to this problem. Study of naturally occurring allogeneic chimeras in the colonial marine inv...

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Main Authors: Amy Lightner, Danny J. Schust, Yi-Bin A. Chen, Breton F. Barrier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2008-01-01
Series:Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/631920
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