Sex Differences in the Frequencies of B and T Cell Subpopulations of Human Cord Blood

Cord blood represents a link between intrauterine and early extrauterine development. cells map an important time frame in human immune imprinting processes. It is unknown whether the sex of newborn affects lymphocyte subpopulations cord blood. Nine B twenty-one T cell were characterized using flow cytometry from sixteen male female newborns, respectively. Except for transitional naïve cells, frequencies counts across all subsets was higher newborns than newborns. The frequency thymus-negative Th significantly blood, whereas remaining showed count Our study first revealing differences These results indicate that might have impact developing system, urging need to expand research this area.