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The survival mechanism depends on the fetus and placenta actively defending themselves against attacks by maternal T cells, achieved through the localized depletion of the amino acid L-tryptophan by an enzyme called indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase. These findings were entirely unexpected and pose important questions regarding diseases related to human pregnancy and their prevention during human pregnancy. Specifically, the role of this mechanism, as discovered in mice, in humans remains unknown, as does the extent to which impaired activation of this process contributes to major clinical diseases in humans. We have, thus, elucidated several key aspects of this enzyme expressed in the human placenta both in normal and abnormal human pregnancy. The questions addressed in this brief review are as follows: (1) localization and characteristics of human placental indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenas; (2) overall tryptophan catabolism in human pregnancy and a comparison of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase expression levels between normal and pre-eclamptic pregnancy; (3) controlling trophoblast invasion by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase and its relation to the pathogenesis of placenta accrete spectrum.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms25084577","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,22]],"date-time":"2024-04-22T12:38:41Z","timestamp":1713789521000},"page":"4577","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["The Role of the Placental Enzyme Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase in Normal and Abnormal Human Pregnancy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6542-3408","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yoshiki","family":"Kudo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Sugimoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"188","DOI":"10.1016\/S0076-6879(87)42028-4","article-title":"Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase","volume":"142","author":"Yoshida","year":"1987","journal-title":"Methods Enzymol."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"635","DOI":"10.1042\/bj2300635","article-title":"Human indolylamine 2,3-dioxygenase. 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