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Inflammatory Changes in Preeclampsia: Current Understanding of the Maternal Innate and Adaptive Immune Response
19 Feb 2007
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UNLABELLED: Preeclampsia is characterized by generalized endothelial dysfunction as a result of an inappropriate maternal immune response against the fetus. It has been postulated that the adaptive immune system plays a key role in the etiology of preeclampsia by generating a pro-inflammatory Th1 type immune reaction. In this review, recent studies on Th1 and Th2 type cytokine mapping in preeclampsia are...
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