Upregulation of chemokine and cytokine production during pregnancy

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 145-150

  Segerer, Sabine ^a   Kämmerer, Ulrike ^a   Kapp, Michaela ^a   Dietl, Johannes ^a   Rieger, Lorenz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Decidualization; Endometrium; Protein array

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; EPITHELIAL DERIVED NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING FACTOR 78; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEPTIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 2; THROMBOPOIETIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; CHEMOKINES; CYTOKINES; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; THROMBOPOIETIN; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 67349211098     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000174291     Document Type: Article

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