15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase: Implications in preterm labor with and without ascending infection

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 969-976

  Van Meir, Claudia A ^a   Matthews, Stephen G ^b,c   Keirse, Marc J N C ^a   Ramirez, Mildred M ^b   Bocking, Alan ^b   Challis, John R G ^b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXYPROSTAGLANDIN DEHYDROGENASE; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; PLACENTA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN METABOLISM; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYPROSTAGLANDIN DEHYDROGENASES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 0031017940     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.3.969     Document Type: Article

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