Effect of chorioamnionitis on the levels of serum proteins in the cord blood of premature infants

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 245-248

  Miyano, Akira ^a   Miyamichi, Toru ^a   Nakayama, Masahiro ^a   Kitajima, Hiroyuki ^a   Shimizu, Akira ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C9; HAPTOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREMATURITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

BLOOD PROTEINS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTERLEUKIN-6; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0029997265     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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