Maternal Fetal Transmission of Human Viruses and their Influence on Tumorigenesis

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Berencsi III, György (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Immunology.; Virology.; Oncology.; Pediatrics.; Epidemiology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.

The human foetus is separated from the maternal blood by the syncytiotrophoblast induced by endogeneous human retrovirus-encoded proteins. This barrier is a highly developed one, which suppors apical-basolateral transport of maternal idiotype and anti-idiotype IgG, IgG-virus complexes. The selective...