The pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin differentially regulates plasmacytoid and myeloid blood dendritic cell subsets.
Karoline SaussStefanie EhrentrautAna Claudia ZenclussenAnne SchumacherPublished in: American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) (2018)
Our data propose that hCG is not a key regulator of cellular alterations within PBDCs. However, under inflammatory conditions, hCG seems to keep the delicate balance between PDC and MDC and retains a tolerogenic MDC1 profile and this may contribute to tolerance maintenance.