High levels of intrauterine corticotropin-releasing hormone, urocortin, tryptase, and interleukin-8 in spontaneous abortions

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2285-2290

  Madhappan, Bhuvaneshwari ^a   Kempuraj, Duraisamy ^a   Christodoulou, Spyridon ^a   Tsapikidis, Stavros ^b   Boucher, William ^a   Karagiannis, Vasilis ^c   Athanassiou, Achilles ^d   Theoharides, Theoharis C ^a,d  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERBALKAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 8; TRYPTASE; UROCORTIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STRESS;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-8; PREGNANCY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STRESS; TRYPTASES; UTERUS;

EID: 0038577126     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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