Regulatory T cells, maternal-foetal immune tolerance and recurrent miscarriage: new therapeutic challenging opportunities

Because maternal alloreactive lymphocytes are not depleted during pregnancy, local and/or systemic mechanisms have to play a key role in altering the maternal immune response. Peripheral T regulatory cells (pTregs) at the maternal-foetal interface are necessary in situ to prevent early abortion, but only those pTregs that have been previously exposed to paternal alloantigens. It has been showed that pregnancy selectively stimulates the accumulation of maternal Foxp3(+)CD4(+)CD25(+) (Foxp3Tregs) cells with foetal specificity. Interestingly, after delivery, foetal-specific pTregs persist at elevated levels, maintain tolerance to pre-existing foetal antigen, and rapidly re-accumulate during subsequent pregnancy. pTreg up-regulation could be hypothesized as a possible future therapeutic strategy in humans..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:144

Enthalten in:

Medicina clínica - 144(2015), 6, Seite 265

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Alijotas-Reig, Jaume [VerfasserIn]
Melnychuk, Taisiia [Sonstige Person]
Gris, Josep Maria [Sonstige Person]

Links:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

BKL:

44.00

Themen:

Abortion, Habitual - immunology
Abortion, Habitual - therapy
Biomarkers - metabolism
Fetus - immunology
Forkhead Transcription Factors - metabolism
Maternal-Fetal Exchange - immunology
T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory - metabolism

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1963997557