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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

Epidemiology of Pregnancy Complications Through the Lens of Immunological Memory.

Emily J Gregory, James Liu, Hilary Miller-Handley, Jeremy M Kinder, Sing Sing Way

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trained Memory of Uterine Macrophages Improves Subsequent Pregnancy Outcomes.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  9. Memory regulatory T cells in pregnancy.Frontiers in immunology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Emily J GregoryDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
James LiuDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
Hilary Miller-HandleyDivision of Infectious Diseases, Center for Inflammation and Tolerance, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
Jeremy M KinderDivision of Infectious Diseases, Center for Inflammation and Tolerance, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
Sing Sing WayDivision of Infectious Diseases, Center for Inflammation and Tolerance, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
University of Cincinnati · USUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center · USCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · US

Funding

Immunological identity redefined by genetically foreign microchimeric cellsDP1AI131080 · NIAID · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI WAY, SING SING · 2016 to 2020
$5.5M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIAID NIH HHS DP1 AI131080
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the fifteen minutes it takes to read this short commentary, more than 400 babies will have been born too early, another 300 expecting mothers will develop preeclampsia, and 75 unborn third trimester fetuses will have died in utero (stillbirth). Given the lack of meaningful progress in understanding the physiological changes that occur to allow a healthy, full term pregnancy, it is perhaps not surprising that effective therapies against these great obstetrical syndromes that include prematurity, preeclampsia, and stillbirth remain elusive. Meanwhile, pregnancy complications remain the leading cause of infant and childhood mortality under age five. Does it have to be this way? What more can we collectively, as a biomedical community, or individually, as clinicians who care for women and newborn babies at high risk for pregnancy complications, do to protect individuals in these extremely vulnerable developmental windows? The problem of pregnancy complications and neonatal mortality is extraordinarily complex, with multiple unique, but complementary perspectives from scientific, epidemiological and public health viewpoints. Herein, we discuss the epidemiology of pregnancy complications, focusing on how the outcome of prior pregnancy impacts the risk of complication in the next pregnancy - and how the fundamental immunological principle of memory may promote this adaptive response.

Indexed as

Immunologic MemoryAdaptive ImmunityAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFemaleHistocompatibility, Maternal-FetalHumansImmune ToleranceImmunity, InnateParityPregnancyPregnancy ComplicationsPrognosisRisk Factorsimmunological memoryparitypreeclampsiaprematuritystillbirth

Identifiers

PMID34248991
PMCPMC8267465
OpenAlexW3176756272

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