Changes in the number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and concentrations of IL-8 and granulocyte elastase in the vaginas of normal pregnant women

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 98-103

  Yamada, Tetsuo ^a   Minakami, Hisanori ^a   Matsubara, Shigeki ^a   Kohmura, Yasuhiro ^a   Aoya, Toshio ^a   Sato, Ikuo ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elastase; Interleukin 8; Leukocyte; Pregnancy; Vagina

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 8; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; LAVAGE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; VAGINA CYTOLOGY; VAGINA SECRETION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; NEUTROPHILS; PREGNANCY; VAGINA;

EID: 0036097169     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0897.2002.1o012.x     Document Type: Article

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