Intra-amniotic infection upregulates decidual cell Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) and neuropilin-1 and -2 expression: Implications for infection-related preterm birth

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 767-780

  Snegovskikh, Victoria V ^a   Schatz, Frederick ^a   Arcuri, Felice ^b   Toti, Paolo ^b   Kayisli, Umit A ^a   Murk, William ^a   Luo, Guoyang ^a   Lockwood, Charles J ^a   Norwitz, Errol R ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intra amniotic infection; Neuropilin; Preterm birth.; VEGF; VEGF receptor

Indexed keywords

DRUG VEHICLE; ESTRADIOL; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPILIN 1; NEUROPILIN 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

AMNIONITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; PLACENTA; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STROMA CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DECIDUA; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE 17-ACETATE; NEUROPILIN-1; NEUROPILIN-2; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1;

EID: 67650451528     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719109336623     Document Type: Article

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