Kidney international

· 1 paper in corpus
2019
Maternal alloimmune IgG causes anti-glomerular basement membrane disease in perinatal transgenic mice that express human laminin α5.
doi:10.1016/j.kint.2019.06.014 ·PMID:31530475

Mammalian immune systems are not mature until well after birth. However, transfer of maternal IgG to the fetus and newborn usually provides immunoprotection from infectious diseases. IgG transfer occurs before birth in humans across the pla…