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Placental Immune Defences - Protection Against Rejection and Infection

Liljander, Maria LU ; Arvola, Marie and Mattsson, Ragnar LU (2007)
Abstract
The placenta must not only provide nutrients and take care of fetal waste products, it also needs to protect the fetus from maternal immunological attacks while at the same time transmitting maternal immunoglobulins to ensure protection against infectious agents.
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Encyclopedia of life sciences
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John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI
10.1002/9780470015902.a0001438.pub2
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English
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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Medical Inflammation Research (013212019)
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  publisher    = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
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