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Learning objectives
Women do have an overreacting immune system when vaccinated and are prone to develop autoimmune diseases, still they can accept the seminal and gestational challenges. This presentation should help the audience to discriminate conflicting information on female immune response to different antigenic sources, including semen and the semi‐ alloantigenic fetus.
Congenital and adaptive functional
aspects of the immune system
• Innate immune system
• Adaptive immune system
• Spontaneous or iatrogenic immune challenge
• Immune system functional properties from childhood
• Sexual life and pregnancy
• Malignancy
• Autoimmunity
• Age‐related decline in immune function
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