Cytokines of the placenta and extra-placental membranes: Roles and regulation during human pregnancy and parturition

Placenta

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 257-273

  Bowen, J M ^a,b,c   Chamley, L ^b   Keelan, J A ^a,b   Mitchell, M D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIN; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PROSTAGLANDIN; STEROID HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; PLACENTAL PEPTIDE HORMONE;

APOPTOSIS; CHILDBIRTH; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMPLANTATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; NEWBORN DISEASE; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIRTH; CEREBRAL PALSY; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CERVICAL RIPENING; CYTOKINES; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PARTURITION; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL HORMONES; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY MAINTENANCE; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0036549899     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.2001.0782     Document Type: Review

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