Role of activins and inducible nitric oxide in the pathogenesis of ectopic pregnancy in patients with or without Chlamydia trachomatis infection

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1493-1503

  Refaat, Bassem ^a   Al Azemi, Majedah ^a   Geary, Ian ^b   Eley, Adrian ^b   Ledger, William ^a  

^a JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 2; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 1; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR TYPE IIB; FOLLISTATIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MYELOPID; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE TUBE;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; ACTIVINS; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RNA, MESSENGER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349660264     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00221-09     Document Type: Article

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