Endothelial Cells and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Are a Potential Source of Extraplacental Activin A in Preeclampsia

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5995-6001

  Tannetta, D S ^a,d   Muttukrishna, S ^b   Groome, N P ^c   Redman, C W G ^a   Sargent, I L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ENDOTOXIN; FOLLISTATIN; INHIBIN A; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ACTIVINS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENDOTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOLLISTATIN; HUMANS; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; MONOCYTES; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0346101828     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-021924     Document Type: Article

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