Role of platelet-activating factor in parturition

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 416, Issue , 1997, Pages 269-275

  Narahara, Hisashi ^a,b   Toyoshima, Kiwamu ^a,c   Johnston, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

AMNION FLUID; BIRTH; FETUS LUNG; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MACROPHAGES; PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0030992430     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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