Placental Immune Defences - Protection Against Rejection and Infection
Författare
Summary, in English
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.
Avdelning/ar
- Immunology
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Encyclopedia of life sciences
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Ämne
- Immunology in the medical area
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Immunology