Impact of fetal-maternal microchimerism on women's health - A review

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-5

  Lapaire, Olav ^a,b   Hösli, Irène ^a   Zanetti Daellenbach, Rosanna ^a   Huang, Dorothy ^a   Jaeggi, Carmen ^a   Gatfield Mergenthaler, Susanne ^a   Hahn, Sinuhe ^a   Holzgreve, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autoimmune diseases; Fetal cells; Microchimerism; Pregnancy; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FETUS CELL; GENETIC DISORDER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MICROCHIMERISM; MYOSITIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHESUS MONKEY; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THYROID DISEASE; TISSUE REPAIR; TRISOMY 18; TWIN PREGNANCY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHIMERA; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHIMERISM; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 34248576560     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767050601144834     Document Type: Review

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