Pregnancy induces a fetal antigen-specific maternal T regulatory cell response that contributes to tolerance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 9299-9304

  Kahn, Daniel A ^a,b   Baltimore, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Denileukin diftitox; H Y; Medawar

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; EPITOPE; FETAL ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SPLEEN CELL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA PRIMERS; EPITOPES; FEMALE; H-Y ANTIGEN; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY, MATERNAL-FETAL; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

MUS;

EID: 77952720267     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003909107     Document Type: Article

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