title: Mother/child mixed lymphocyte reaction: is it depressed?
abstract: Several alternative reasons have been offered for the immunological inertia between the pregnant mother and her fetus. None of these alone has proved correct and sufficient. In this review Paavo Toivanen and Christer Granberg look at one interesting mechanism - the inhibition of maternal lymphocyte reactivity by fetal suppressor cells observedin vitro when untreated populations of maternal and neonatal lymphocytes are cultured together.
authors.affiliation: Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Toivanen
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Turku University, Turku, Finland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Granberg