The hygiene hypothesis revisited: Role of materno-fetal interactions

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 444-452

  Thornton, Catherine A ^a   MacFarlane, Trisha V ^a   Holt, Patrick G ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allergy; Decidua; Immunology; Maternal; Placenta; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGENY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TH2 CELL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78049253032     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-010-0148-5     Document Type: Review

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