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Maternal-fetal disparity in HLA class II alloantigens and the pregnancy-induced amelioration of rheumatoid arthritis.
The New England journal of medicine - 12 Aug 1993
Nelson J L, Hughes K A, Smith A G, Nisperos B B, Branchaud A M, Hansen J A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid arthritis frequently remits during pregnancy, for unknown reasons. Since an immune response to paternally inherited fetal HLA can occur during normal pregnancy and since rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder with a known HLA class II antigen association, we tested the hypothesis that maternal-fetal disparity in HLA alloantigens might be associated with the pregnancy-induced...
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