A long-term competent chimeric immune system in a dizygotic dichorionic twin

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Biran, Valerie ^a,b,c   Bornes, Marie ^b   Aboura, Azzedine ^b   Masmoudi, Sonia ^b   Drunat, Séverine ^b   Baumann, Clarisse ^b   Osimani, Sara ^b   Dalle, Jean Hugues ^b   Sterkers, Ghislaine ^b   Verloes, Alain ^b   Farnoux, Caroline ^b   Maury, Laure ^b   Schmitz, B Thomas ^b,c   Khung, Suonavy ^b   Baud, Olivier ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c PremUP   (France)

Author keywords

Chimeric twins; Immune system; Immune tolerance; Twin anemia polycythemia sequence; Vascular anastomoses

Indexed keywords

CD45RA ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; FOLLITROPIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ANEMIA; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASTROCYTOSIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; BRAIN EDEMA; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DUCTUS VENOSUS; ERYTHROBLASTOSIS; EUTROPHIA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAPLOTYPE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; PALLOR; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLACENTA DISORDER; POLYCYTHEMIA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEATOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; UMBILICAL ARTERY; WHITE MATTER;

CHIMERISM; CHORION; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051515784     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-3557     Document Type: Article

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