Introduction to the immunology of pregnancy

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Cases of recurrent abortion, implantation failure, and babies with hemolytic disease of the newborn still puzzle us with the question “why did your mother reject you?” Immunological rejection was introduced more than 70 years ago by Sir Peter Medawar, a Nobel laureate that recognized pregnancy as a semiallograft that escapes rejection. Medawar, in the early 1950s, acknowledged for the first time the unique...

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