Publications

J. Lee Nelson Lab, Publications (selected from >100 total)

Nelson JL. Your cells are my cells. Scientific American 298:72-79, 2008.

Nelson JL, Gillespie KM, Lambert NC, Stevens AM, Loubiere LS, Rutledge JC, Leisenring WM, Erickson TD, Yan Z, Mullarkey ME, Boespflug ND, Bingley PJ, Gale EAM. Maternal microchimerism in peripheral blood in type 1 diabetes and pancreatic islet cell microchimerism. P Natl Acad Sci 104:1637-42, 2007.

Gadi VK, Nelson JL. Fetal microchimerism in breast cancer. Can Res 67:9035-8, 2007.

Adams K, Zhan Y, Stevens Am, Nelson JL. The changing maternal "self" hypothesis: A mechanism for maternal tolerance of the fetus. Placenta 28:378-82, 2007.

Yan Z, Ostensen M, Lambert NC, Guthrie KA, Nelson JL. Prospective study of cell-free fetal DNA and disease activity during pregnancy in women with inflammatory arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 54:2069-73, 2006.

Adams KA, Nelson JL. Microchimerism: An investigative frontier in autoimmunity and transplantation. JAMA 291:1127-1131, 2004.

Stevens AM, Mullarkey ME, Pang JM, Hermes HM, McDonnell M, Lambert NC, Nelson JL. Liver biopsies from human females contain male hepatocytes in the absence of transplantation. Lab Invest 84:1603-1609, 2004.

Lambert NC, Erickson TD, Zhen Y, Pang J, Guthrie KA, Furst DE, Nelson JL. Quantification of maternal microchimerism by HLA specific real-time PCR. Studies of healthy women and women with scleroderma. Arthritis Rheum 50:906-914, 2004.

Adams KM, Holmberg LA, Tylee TS, Nelson JL. Risk factors for acute and chronic graft-versus-host-disease in syngeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Blood 104:1894-7, 2004.

Adams KM, Lambert NC, Heimfeld S, Tylee TS, Pang JM, Erickson TD, Nelson JL. Male DNA in peripheral blood stem cell apheresis products of female donors. Blood 15:3845-7, 2003.

Stevens AM, Hermes H, Rutledge R, Buyon J, Nelson JL. Maternal microchimerism has myocardial tissue-specific phenotype in neonatal lupus congenital heart block. Lancet 362:1617-23, 2003.

Lambert NC, Lo Y, Erickson T, Tylee T, Guthrie K, Furst DE, Nelson JL. Male microchimerism in healthy women and women with scleroderma: cells or circulating DNA? Blood 100:2845-51,2002.

Nelson JL. Microchimerism: incidental byproduct of pregnancy or active participant in human health? Trends Mol Med 8:109-113, 2002.

Nelson JL. The chimeric self. Natural History Magazine, p14-16, June 2001.

Maloney S, Smith AG, Furst DE, Myerson D, Rupert K, Evans PC, Nelson JL. Microchimerism of maternal origin persists into adult life. J Clin Invest 104:41-47,1999.

Nelson JL, Furst D, Maloney S, Gooley T, Evans P, Bean M, Ober C, Smith A, Bianchi D. Microchimerism and HLA-compatible relationships of pregnancy in women with scleroderma. Lancet 351:559-62, 1998.

Nelson JL. Microchimerism and autoimmune disease. N Engl Jnl Med 338:1224-1225, 1998.

Nelson JL, Torrez R, Louie FM, Choe OS, Sullivan K. Pre-existing autoimmune disease in patients with long-term survival after bone marrow transplantation, Seattle experience. J Rheumatol 24:23-29, 1997.

Nelson JL. Maternal-fetal immunology and autoimmune disease. Is some autoimmune disease auto-alloimmune or allo-autoimmune? Arthritis Rheum 39:191-194, 1996.

Nelson JL, Hughes K, Smith A, Nisperos B, Branchaud A, Hansen JA. Maternal-fetal disparity in HLA class II alloantigens and the pregnancy-induced amelioration of rheumatoid arthritis. N Engl J Med 329:466-71, 1993.