Fetal but not maternal serum cytokine levels correlate with histologic acute placental inflammation

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 419-422

  Salafia, Carolyn M ^a,b   Sherer, David M ^a   Spong, Catherine Y ^a   Lencki, Sean ^a   Eglinton, Gary S ^a   Parkash, Vinita ^c   Marley, Edith ^a   Lage, Janice M ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute ascending infection; Fetal serum; Interleukins; Maternal serum; Placental pathology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL BLOOD; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0030853955     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-994172     Document Type: Article

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