Preeclampsia and pregnancies with small-for-gestational age neonates have different profiles of complement split products

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 646-657

  Soto, Eleazar ^a,b   Romero, Roberto ^a,b   Richani, Karina ^a   Espinoza, Jimmy ^a,b   Chaiworapongsa, Tinnakorn ^a,b   Nien, Jyh Kae ^a,b   Edwin, Sam S ^a   Kim, Yeon Mee ^a   Hong, Joon Seok ^c   Goncalves, Luis F ^a,b   Yeo, Lami ^a,b   Mazor, Moshe ^d   Hassan, Sonia S ^a,b   Kusanovic, Juan Pedro ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anaphylatoxins; C3a; C4a; C5a; Complement system; Hypertension; Inflammation; Innate immunity; Pregnancy; SGA

Indexed keywords

ANAPHYLATOXIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3A; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4A; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5A; COMPLEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; MOTHER; NEWBORN; OSMOLARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAPHYLATOXINS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; METABOLOME; MOTHERS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953630998     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767050903301009     Document Type: Article

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