Leukocyte density and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in human fetal membranes, decidua, cervix and myometrium before and during labour at term

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-45

  Osman, Inass ^a   Young, Anne ^a   Ledingham, Marie Anne ^a   Thomson, Andrew J ^a   Jordan, Fiona ^a   Greer, Ian A ^a   Norman, Jane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervix; Cytokines; Labour; Leukocytes; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMNION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; LEUKOCYTE; MYOMETRIUM; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS BIOPSY;

AMNION; ANTIGENS, CD; CELL COUNT; CERVIX UTERI; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORION; CYTOKINES; DECIDUA; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LEUKOCYTES; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0037215931     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gag001     Document Type: Review

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