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Maternal T Cell Reactivity in Pregnancy?

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Reproductive Immunology

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology ((CT MICROBIOLOGY,volume 222))

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This review deals with maternal T cell reactivity in pregnancy. Since other chapters consider recurrent spontaneous abortion in human, we focus(very briefly) only on data in such situations when they cast light on maternal T cell status in normal human pregnancy. It is necessary, however, to deal with abortion models in mice since these are models for study of T cell reactivity during gestation.

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