Mother and baby's immune cells linked to aggressive placental inflammation in preterm cases

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In a healthy pregnancy, a finely tuned maternal immune response prevents the mother's body from rejecting the growing fetus. But in some pregnancies, this response goes haywire, leading to a potentially dangerous complication known as chronic placental inflammation. To understand what drives this inflammation, researchers led by Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Ph.D., a professor of obstetrics and gynecology…

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