title: Prenatal programming of the innate immune response following in utero exposure to inflammation: a sexually dimorphic process?
abstract: Maternal infection and inflammation are common events during pregnancy. This article documents evidence that suggests such inflammation compromises the development of the fetal innate immune response, in support of an in utero origins hypothesis of neonatal and childhood inflammatory disease. The potential for this response to exhibit sex specificity is also explored, based on evidence of sexually dimorphic placental responses to maternal inflammation.
authors: The Robinson Institute, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
authors: Nicolette A
authors: NA
authors: Hodyl
authors: Michael J
authors: MJ
authors: Stark
authors: Annette
authors: A
authors: Osei-Kumah
authors: Vicki L
authors: VL
authors: Clifton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D007249:Inflammation / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000276:immunology*; D012727:Sex Characteristics