Cytokines in normal and abnormal parturition: Elevated amniotic fluid interleukin-6 levels in women with premature rupture of membranes associated with intrauterine infection

Cytokine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 155-163

  Santhanam, Uma ^a   Avila, Cecilia ^b   Romero, Roberto ^b   Viguet, Huguette ^a   Ida, Nobuo ^c   Sakurai, Shingou ^d   Sehgal, Pravinkumar B ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^d Social Insurance Mishima Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

amniotic fluid; B9 hybridoma growth factor assay; IL 6 ELISA; pregnancy and labor; premature rupture of membranes

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MATERNAL AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AMNIOTIC FLUID; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN-6; LABOR, PREMATURE; MATERNAL AGE 35 AND OVER; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026131229     PISSN: 10434666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1043-4666(91)90037-E     Document Type: Article

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