title: [Transplacental passage of cells from mother to fetus: experimental approach and initial results in the rat].
abstract: The consequences of transfusion across the placenta of maternal cells to fetuses, supposed to elicit a Graft-Versus-Host-Reaction, are poorly investigated; the injection of pregnant rat whole blood cells to its own fetuses is proposed here as a convenient experimental model to improve the understanding of these consequences; indeed this technic is reliable as well as easy enough to carry out experiments on large samples. Preliminary results indicate that the injection is often followed by a runting disease, a thymic atrophy and a liver hypertrophy; splenomegaly does not occur. On the histologic level, the main features are as follows 1) modification of central lymphoïd organs, 2) blastic and/or granulocytic infiltrates of several other organs, namely the liver, the adrenal cortex and the thyroïd gland.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000276:immunology*; D006087:Graft vs Host Reaction; D008431:Maternal-Fetal Exchange; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats
vernacular_title: Passage transplacentaire de cellules dans le sens mère-foetus: approche expérimentale et premiers résultats chez le rat.