A pregnant woman's immune response could lead to brain disorders in her kids
- Written by Myka Estes, Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuroscience , University of California, Davis
Pregnant women, like everyone, get sick. And like everyone else, their bodies try to fight infection and, importantly, keep it from reaching the growing fetus.
If the mother’s immune system successfully defeats the virus before the developing baby is exposed or if the virus never crosses the placenta, is harm averted?
Counterintuitively, this...
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