Choriodecidual inflammation: A harbinger of the preterm labor syndrome

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-94

  Grigsby, Peta L ^a   Novy, Miles J ^a   Waldorf, Kristina M Adams ^b,c   Sadowsky, Drew W ^a   Gravett, Michael G ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Choriodecidual inflammation; Group B streptococcus.; Preterm labor; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

AMNION FLUID; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL FUNCTION; CHORIODECIDUAL INFLAMMATION; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DECIDUA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; INDWELLING CATHETER; INOCULATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; UTERUS CONTRACTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; INFLAMMATION; MACACA; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORION; CYTOKINES; DECIDUA; DINOPROSTONE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTES; MACACA MULATTA; MYOMETRIUM; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 77449118192     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719109348025     Document Type: Article

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