Transfer of inflammatory cytokines across the placenta

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 546-550

  Zaretsky, Michael V ^a   Alexander, James M ^a   Byrd, William ^a   Bawdon, Roger E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL DISEASE; MODEL; PERFUSION; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; REFERENCE VALUE; TIME;

CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 1842615094     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000114980.40445.83     Document Type: Article

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