Seminal Fluid Drives Expansion of the CD4+CD25+ T Regulatory Cell Pool and Induces Tolerance to Paternal Alloantigens in Mice1
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- 1 May 2009
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biology of Reproduction
- Vol. 80 (5) , 1036-1045
- https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.108.074658
Abstract
T regulatory (Treg) cells are implicated in maternal immune tolerance of the conceptus at implantation; however, the antigenic and regulatory signalsKeywords
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