Adrienne Antonson and Rafael Gonzalez-Rincon (IMAGE)

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Adrienne Antonson and Rafael Gonzalez-Rincon

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers Adrienne Antonson (left) and Rafael Gonzalez-Rincon show, for the first time, that severe flu infection in pregnant mice leads to a breakdown in placental and brain barriers and accumulation of potentially harmful molecules in the fetal brain.

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