Microchimerism in cord blood: mother as anticancer drug.
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M aternal microchimerism (MMc) in cord blood (CB) caused by the exchange of cells at the maternal–fetal interface was first described in 1995 by Hall et al. (1). To the many known immunologic consequences of maternal–fetal cell exchange and particularly, CB MMc must now be added yet another consequence: the antitumor immunotherapeutic effect of CB transplants. Surprisingly, this effect seems to be due at least in part, to rare maternal T cells contained therein.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
دوره 109 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012