The transforming growth factor-β superfamily cytokine macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 is present in high concentrations in the serum of pregnant women

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4781-4788

  Moore, A G ^a   Brown, D A ^a   Fairlie, W D ^a   Bauskin, A R ^a   Brown, P K ^a   Munier, M L C ^a   Russell, P K ^a   Salamonsen, L A ^c   Wallace, E M ^b   Breit, S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; MACROPHAGE INHIBITORY CYTOKINE 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MATERNAL SERUM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST;

ADULT; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; PLACENTA; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 17744365158     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.85.12.4781     Document Type: Article

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