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Stillbirth prevented by signal blockade

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Bacterial infections during pregnancy can cause fetal death. The identification of a cell-signalling pathway induced during infection that recruits dangerous immune cells to the placenta may open up avenues to prevent this.

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Figure 1: Chemokine signalling triggers fetal death.

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  1. Anna Bakardjiev is at Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0654, USA.,

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Bakardjiev, A. Stillbirth prevented by signal blockade. Nature 520, 627–628 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/520627a

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