Viral infection of the placenta leads to fetal inflammation and sensitization to bacterial products predisposing to preterm labor

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1248-1257

  Cardenas, Ingrid ^a   Means, Robert E ^a   Aldo, Paulomi ^a   Koga, Kaori ^a   Lang, Sabine M ^a   Booth, Carmen ^a   Manzur, Alejandro ^b   Oyarzun, Enrique ^b   Romero, Roberto ^c   Mor, Gil ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; TLR3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVALUATION; FETUS DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN INJURY; PANDEMIC; PLACENTA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; TROPHOBLAST; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RHADINOVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NIH 3T3 CELLS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RHADINOVIRUS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 3; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 77955507209     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1000289     Document Type: Article

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