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The Effects of Pregnancy on Autoimmune Diseases
1 Feb 1996
Abstract excerpt
Despite a now reasonable large body of developed information, critical gaps are apparent. Pregnancy is the only naturally occurring event in which an individual is exposed to nonself HLA. How the HLA mismatched fetus escapes rejection remains a biologic enigma. More definitive evidence is needed to determine if TH2 bias occurs in normal human pregnancy and how this impacts on established autoimmune diseases. With...
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