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Synergies of Extracellular Vesicles and Microchimerism in Promoting Immunotolerance During Pregnancy
1 Jul 2022
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The concept of biological identity has been traditionally a central issue in immunology. The assumption that entities foreign to a specific organism should be rejected by its immune system, while self-entities do not trigger an immune response is challenged by the expanded immunotolerance observed in pregnancy. To explain this "immunological paradox", as it was first called by Sir Peter Medawar, several...
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