Region-specific gene expression profiling: Novel evidence for biological heterogeneity of the human amnion

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 954-961

  Yu, Mi Han ^a   Romero, Roberto ^a,b,d   Kim, Jung Sun ^a,b   Tarca, Adi L ^a,c   Sun, Kwon Kim ^a   Draghici, Sorin ^c   Kusanovic, Juan Pedro ^a   Gotsch, Francesca ^a   Mittal, Pooja ^a,b   Hassan, Sonia S ^a,b   Chong, Jai Kim ^a,b,d  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Wayne State University   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IL1B; Lipopolysaccharide; Microarray; Parturition; Placenta; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AMNION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL HETEROGENEITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMNION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MECONIUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARTURITION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 55549124577     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.069260     Document Type: Article

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