Infection of Placental Extravillous Cytotrophoblasts with Human Cytomegalovirus Causes a Treg/Th17 Imbalance at the Maternal–Fetal Interface

This paper aimed to evaluate whether human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection in extravillous cytotrophoblasts (EVT) could shift the balance between regulatory T (Treg) and T-helper type 17 (Th17) cells in vitro. In this study, primary EVT isolated from first trimester placental tissues were infected...

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Main Authors: Yuan Qiao, Helena Kolibaba, Yukiko Mori, Tao Liu, Huijun Chen, Juanjuan Guo, Dan Xu, Yuanzhen Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-07-01
Series:Cell Transplantation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/0963689720925055