Pregnancy immunology
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perinatal blood group incompatibility, women's health
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- In this light, and because women are preferentially affected by a wide variety of autoimmune diseases, the subject of pregnancy immunology is of special interest.
- Pregnancy immunology is, however, not only restricted to the understanding of the transplant analogy of pregnancy, but has also achieved clinical significance through our increased awareness of immunological mechanisms being implicated in various pregnancy disorders.
- " Besides clinicians who deal with women trying to have babies, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and medical residents desiring a basic knowledge of pregnancy immunology would find this book a valuable asset.
- AJRI covers a variety of subspecialty topics, including fertility immunology, pregnancy immunology, immunogenetics, mucosal immunology, immunocontraception, endometriosis, recurrent spontaneous abortion, and autoantibodies.
- [The placenta and pregnancy immunology]Haffner J.
- Pregnancy immunology and autoimmune disease.
- Pregnancy Immunology HLA-G protein complexes on cytotrophoblasts regulate NK killing ability October 2nd, 2003 The extravillous cytotrophoblast cells have unique HLA-G class I MHC with 2 critical cysteine residues involved in impairment of NK cell function.
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