fetal immunity

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• intrauterine immunity — passive immunity acquired by the fetus as a consequence of the passage of maternal IgG antibodies from an immune mother through the placenta into the fetal circulation …   Medical dictionary

• Polly Matzinger — Polly Celine Eveline Matzinger (born 21 July 1947) is an iconoclastic scientist who proposed a novel explanation of how the immune system works, called the danger model . Early yearsPolly Matzinger took to science from an unusual background… …   Wikipedia

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• Immune tolerance in pregnancy — or gestational/maternal immune tolerance is the absence of a maternal immune response against the fetus and placenta, which thus may be viewed as unusually successful allografts, since they genetically differ from the mother.[1] In the same way,… …   Wikipedia

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