The presence within one individual of a small population of cells from another genetically distinct individual is referred to as microchimerism. Naturally acquired microchimerism has recently been ...

Women who have been pregnant carry their baby's cells in their bloodstream for years after the pregnancy ends – even in cases of miscarriage – a circumstance called microchimerism. In normal women, ...

1 Department of General Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China Background ...