Microchimerism: Tolerance vs. sensitization

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 359-365

  Dutta, Partha ^a,b   Burlingham, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

microchimerism; noninherited maternal antigens; T regulatory cells; tolerance

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; NONINHERITED MATERNAL ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENDOCYTOSIS; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS BLOOD; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MATERNAL CARE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROCHIMERISM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SPLEEN CELL; STEM CELL; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

ANIMALS; CLONAL DELETION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; ISOANTIGENS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051782868     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e3283484b57     Document Type: Review

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