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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 178, Issue 6, Pages 3345-3351Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.6.3345
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Induction and maintenance of immunologic tolerance in humans remains a desirable but elusive goal. Therefore, understanding the physiologic mechanisms of regulation of immune responses is highly clinically relevant for immune-mediated diseases (e.g., autoimmunity and asthmal allergy) and for cell and organ transplantation. Acceptance of the fetus, which expresses paternally inherited alloantigens, by the mother during pregnancy is a unique example of how the immune system reshapes a destructive alloimmune response to a state of tolerance. Understanding the complex mechanisms of fetomaternal tolerance has important implications for developing novel strategies to induce immunologic tolerance in humans in general and for prevention ofspontaneous abortion in at-risk populations in particular.
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