Possible interplay between vitamin C deficiency and prolactin in pregnant women with premature rupture of membranes: Facts and hypothesis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 241-247

  Casanueva, E ^a   Ripoll, C ^a   Meza Camacho, C ^a   Coutino B ^a   Ramirez Peredo J ^a   Parra, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PERINATOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CYTOKINE; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PROLACTIN;

ARTICLE; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; UPREGULATION; UTERUS;

ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN; PROSTAGLANDINS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 11144298765     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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