Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 17th, 2005
Study 1: Maternal killer immunoglobulin receptors and fetal HLA-C genes appear to influence the risk of preeclampsia, pathologists report.
"Preeclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy in which the fetus receives an inadequate supply of blood due to failure of trophoblast invasion. There is evidence that the condition has an immunological basis. The only known polymorphic histocompatibility antigens on the fetal trophoblast are HLA-C molecules," said S.E. Hiby and colleagues, University of Cambridge, U.K.
In their study, the...
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