Feto-placental communication system with the myometrium in pregnancy and parturition: The role of hormones, neurohormones, inflammatory mediators, and locally active factors

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 125-133

  Ticconi, Carlo ^a   Belmonte, Alessia ^a   Piccione, Emilio ^a   Rao, Ch V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetus; Hormones; Inflammatory mediators; Labor; Myometrium; Neurohormones; Placenta; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; HORMONE; NEUROHORMONE; OXYTOCIN; PEPTIDE HORMONE; PROSTAGLANDIN; STEROID HORMONE; VASOPRESSIN;

CHILDBIRTH; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; MEDIATOR; METABOLISM; MYOMETRIUM; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOMETRIUM; PARTURITION; PLACENTAL HORMONES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 33646760240     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767050600555808     Document Type: Review

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