Placental Immune Defences - Protection Against Rejection and Infection
(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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- author
- Liljander, Maria LU ; Arvola, Marie and Mattsson, Ragnar LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2007
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Encyclopedia of life sciences
- publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- DOI
- 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001438.pub2
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- 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)
- id
- fd4e30ed-daf7-4543-999d-6860bce6c0c6 (old id 1142456)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 12:06:56
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- 2024-07-04 11:21:15
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