Bacteria and inflammatory cells in fetal membranes do not always cause preterm labor

Pediatric Research

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 404-411

  Steel, Jennifer H ^a   Malatos, Sotiris ^a   Kennea, Nigel ^b   Edwards, A David ^b   Miles, Lynda ^a   Duggan, Philip ^b   Reynolds, Peter R ^b   Feldman, Robert G ^b,c   Sullivan, Mark H F ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Vmax Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; FLUORESCEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; RNA 16S;

AMNION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CHORION; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC CODE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANTIGENS, CD; BACTERIA; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 14344264154     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000153869.96337.90     Document Type: Article

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