Changes in plasma elastase during pregnancy and sub partu

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-92

  Cunze, T ^a   Osmers, R ^a   Herzog, S ^a   Speer, Ch ^b   Kuhn, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elastase; Onset of labor; Parturition; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ELASTASE; MARKER;

AMNIONITIS; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DELIVERY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; NEUTROPHIL; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031907897     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000009932     Document Type: Article

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