Corticotrophin-releasing hormone in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated term fetal membranes and amniotic fluid from term and preterm birth in African Americans and Caucasians

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 477-483

  Menon, Ramkumar ^a,b   Arora, Chander P ^c   Hobel, Calvin J ^c   Fortunato, Stephen J ^a,d  

^a Perinatal Research Center   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CRH; Infection; Prematurity; Preterm labor; Race; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RACE DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CARRIER PROTEINS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 45149087301     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719108315300     Document Type: Article

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