Role of cytokines and other inflammatory mediators

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 110, Issue SUPPL. 20, 2003, Pages 118-123

  Winkler, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; GELATINASE B; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; METALLOPROTEINASE; NEUTROPHIL COLLAGENASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

AMNION FLUID; BLOOD LEVEL; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEGRANULATION; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE; MATERNAL SERUM; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PLACENTA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0038664195     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-0328(03)00062-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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