Altered Immune Cells May Both Contribute to Preeclampsia and Offer New Hope for Treatment
Sunday, April 23, 2017 - 17:51
in Health & Medicine
In a new study presented today at the APS annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2017, researchers have found that the immune system's natural killer (NK) cells activate and change in response to placental ischemia. Disrupting these altered cells seems to blunt some of the dangerous complications of the condition, including high blood pressure (hypertension) and inflammation in the mother and growth restriction in the fetus.