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Normal human pregnancy is associated with an elevation in the immune suppressive CD25 + CD4 + regulatory T‐cell subset
16 Apr 2004
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Summary CD4+ CD25+ T regulatory cells (TReg), suppress antigen-specific immune responses and are important for allograft tolerance. During pregnancy the mother tolerates an allograft expressing paternal antigens (the fetus) requiring substantial changes in immune regulation over a programmed period of time. We analysed whether immune-suppressive TReg cells were altered during pregnancy and therefore might play a...
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