Leukocytes infiltrate the myometrium during human parturition: Further evidence that labour is an inflammatory process

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 229-236

  Thomson, Andrew J ^a   Telfer, Joan F ^a   Young, Anne ^a   Campbell, Steve ^a   Stewart, Colin J R ^a   Cameron, Iain T ^a   Greer, Ian A ^a   Norman, Jane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adhesion molecules; Labour; Macrophages; Neutrophils; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 2; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LABOR; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; MACROPHAGE; MYOMETRIUM; NEUTROPHIL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0032951857     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.1.229     Document Type: Article

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