The risk and severity of specific infections are increased during pregnancy due to a
combination of physiological and immunological changes. Characterizing the maternal …

During pregnancy, various immune effectors and molecules participating in the immune-
microenvironment establish specific maternal tolerance toward the semi-allogeneic fetus …

Embryo implantation involves the intimate interaction between an implantation-competent
blastocyst and a receptive uterus, which occurs in a limited time period known as the …

Citation Saito S, Nakashima A, Shima T, Ito M. Th1/Th2/Th17 and regulatory T‐cell paradigm
in pregnancy. Am J Reprod Immunol 2010 T‐helper (Th) cells play a central role in …

Natural killer cells constitute 50–90% of lymphocytes in human uterine decidua in early
pregnancy. Here, CD56bright uterine decidual NK (dNK) cells were compared with the …

The traditional way to study the immunology of pregnancy follows the classical
transplantation model, which views the fetus as an allograft. A more recent approach, which …

Women mount more vigorous antibody-and cell-mediated immune responses following
either infection or vaccination than men. The incidence of most autoimmune diseases is also …

We know how B and T cells develop, what they'see'and the receptors they'see with'. By
contrast, and despite an unprecedented increase in the number of receptors and ligands …

Inflammatory immune response plays a key role in reproductive failures such as multiple
implantation failures (MIF), early pregnancy loss, and recurrent pregnancy losses (RPL) …

BACKGROUND Increased numbers of phenotypically unusual CD56bright CD16− uterine
natural killer (uNK) cells have been associated with recurrent reproductive failure. uNK cells …