During pregnancy, the maternal immune system must engage in a fine balancing act: maintaining tolerance to the fetal allograft while restoring innate and adaptive immune mechanisms for protection ...

Exposure to nitric oxide (NO)— which is produced when fuel is burned — while a mother is pregnant, or in the early months of ...

But a new study shows it may sometimes happen when the fetal immune system “wakes up” too early and begins to reject the mother, causing the uterus to start contracting. with the Breaking Science News ...

The immune system may malfunction in numerous ways ... [55] The investigators suggested that cytokine activity or inflammation in the fetal brain might disrupt the process by which T cells ...

Human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are critical to the maternal-fetal immune system, which "allows a mother to accept a genetically distinct fetus without an aggressive immune response," per Frontiers ...

She then teamed up with Cleveland Clinic maternal-fetal virologists Jolin ... called the complementary immune response. At normal levels, the complement system is a good thing during pregnancy ...

No attention has been paid to more subtle effects, such as effects on placental development or fetal weight or the effects of the vaccine or its adjuvant on the maternal immune system. During ...

This is essential in the extrapolation of the murine studies of fetal immune system development to humans, as in mice the maturation occurs largely after birth, and the microbial exposures of ...

Most pregnant patients will never meet a maternal-fetal medicine physician, but for those that do, the conversations can be ...

Many dogs thrive on mental stimulation and enrichment. It’s a necessity for some intelligent breeds — otherwise, they’ll ...

The health of fetal macrophages in the placenta can act as an indicator ... Researchers have uncovered important immune signatures in children with infected flares of eczema. Technology Networks spoke ...