Genetic association of Toll-like receptor 4 with cervical cytokine concentrations during pregnancy

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 636-640

  Ryckman, K K ^a   Williams, S M ^a   Krohn, M A ^b,c   Simhan, H N ^b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VAGINITIS;

CERVIX UTERI; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70350298933     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gene.2009.47     Document Type: Article

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