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Immunology of Pregnancy 2013
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Since a September, 1992, Nature article which read: “Can there be life without LIF?”, researchers now realize
that the maternal immune system is both a foe (it can reject the conceptus) and a friend (immune cells and
molecules are also necessary for successful pregnancy). Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) when absent,
prevents embryo implantation in rodents. From fecundation to parturition, immunity acts as a Janus,
required but potentially dangerous. However, the complexity and the diversity of immunity in pregnancy
deter many from entering the field. This book will try to give a complete overview of immunity from gametes
till parturition, in brief, but with complete chapters and subsections, each written by leading specialists in
the field.
The importance of the topic relies not only on “the riddle of the fetal allograft”, which is per se fascinating,
but on its consequences, linked to the development of IVF and in general, Assisted Reproductive
Technologies (ART) / Medicine. Since the discovery that there would not be (mammalian) life without LIF, it
has become clear that in general, Immune Molecules, and most specifically a transient post mating
inflammatory reaction are required for successful implantation. Disruptions of this process can lead to
implantation failure / sterility.
In later stages of pregnancy immunological cells, mostly of the innate immune system, control formation of
local spiral arteries. Finally, a state of tolerance establishes itself, whose “break” leads to immune abortion.
Also the vascular bed is further transformed and enlarged, till delivery, and here again “immunological
cytokines” do play a major role and can eventually cause immune mediated abortion.
Failure of, not just, the cytokine and cell recognition mediated dialogue, but also of the pre and periimplantation “preparation of the uterus”, as stated, leads to sterility, early pregnancy loss and recurrent
abortions. There is also an increasingly stronger series of argument to implicate immunology in preeclampsia. Further still, immunology is also implicated in the control of local infection, mother to child
transmission of pathogens (notably, but not limited to, HIV). Finally, pregnancy is the only known
physiological allorecognition phenomenon where the once named “suppressor T cells,” now re-emerged as
“regulatory T cells”, play a cardinal role.
This E-book provides a complete compendium of gynecological immunology, spanning from fecundation to
delivery. Topics also include the role of various cell types (such as T regs and NK cells) in implantation and
uterine changes as well as the genetic regulation of immunological processes. As such it will be of interest
not only to mainstream and reproductive immunologists, but more importantly, clinicians in obstetrics and
gynecology.
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