Fetal cells in maternal tissue following pregnancy: What are the consequences?

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 497-502

  Johnson, Kirby L ^a   Bianchi, Diana W ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal cell microchimerism; Fetomaternal trafficking; Pregnancy; Review

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TRANSFER; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS CELL; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; MATERNAL DISEASE; MICROCHIMERISM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHIMERA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL RESEARCH; FETUS; HUMANS; MICE; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 8844264530     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmh040     Document Type: Review

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