Microchimerism and Rheumatoid Arthritis

28/06/2007 13 min

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Episode Synopsis



Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: J. Lee Nelson, MD



Rheumatoid arthritis often improves during pregnancy. Why? Truth is stranger than fiction here as it seems that that immunologically competent fetal cells transferring into the maternal circulation help mitigate the mother's immune response to "self."

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