Elevated placental cytokine release, a process associated with preterm labor in the absence of intrauterine infection

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 534-539

  Steinborn, Andrea ^a   Gunes, Hanife ^a   Roddiger, Sandra ^a   Halberstadt, Ernst ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLACENTA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN RELEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 0342679111     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0029-7844(96)00224-4     Document Type: Article

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