We still cannot explain why the human fetus, an allograft, is not rejected by the pregnant mother, particularly since humoral and cell-mediated responses have been demonstrated against the paternal haplotype (1). There is, furthermore, some evidence of increased suppressor cell activity in the human fetus
(2).Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic rheumat-
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