Immunity to placental malaria. IV. Placental malaria is associated with up-regulation of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in intervillous blood

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1371-1375

  Chaisavaneeyakorn, Sujittra ^a,c   Moore, Julie M ^b   Othoro, Caroline ^d   Otieno, Juliana ^e   Chaiyaroj, Sansanee C ^c   Shi, Ya Ping ^a   Nahlen, Bernard L ^a,f   Lal, Altaf A ^a   Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital   (Kenya)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MALARIA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA VILLUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION-INHIBITORY FACTORS; MACROPHAGES; MALARIA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0036839058     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344322     Document Type: Article

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