MATERNAL-FETAL TOLERANCE AS A MANIFESTATION OF REGULATORY CONTINUUM AND PLASTICITY OF THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEMS (in memory of I.P. Ashmarin)
Abstract.Relations of immune tolerance between mother and fetus are considered in view of a common regulatory continuum which is formed under the influence of a growing fetus.To explain such an immune tolerance, a notion of immune system plasticity is introduced, as an analogue to the nervous system plasticity, Corded Phone which develops in respon