Transplacental priming of the human immune system with environmental allergens can occur early in gestation

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 530-536

  Szépfalusi, Zsolt ^a   Pichler, Josefa ^a   Elsässera, Stefan ^a   Van Duren, Katalin ^a   Ebner, Christof ^b   Bernaschek, Georg ^c   Urbanek, Radvan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Institute of General and Experimental Pathology   (Austria)

^c Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergen; Cord blood cells; Diaplacental transfer; Sensitization; T cell proliferation

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; OVALBUMIN;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONAL ANERGY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 0034507683     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mai.2000.108710     Document Type: Article

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