Anti-inflammatory interventions in pregnancy: Now and the future

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 327-332

  Elovitz, Michal A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunomodulators; Inflammation; Preterm birth; Progestational agents

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; TERM BIRTH;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROGESTINS;

EID: 33745865210     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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