Is there a positive or a negative role of second trimester amniotic fluid urocortin in preterm delivery prediction?

European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-228

  Iavazzo, Christos ^a   Malamitsi Puchner, Ariadne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; ESTRIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; UROCORTIN;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECIDUA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FETUS MEMBRANE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LABOR ONSET; LETTER; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROLE THEORY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

EID: 77955514906     PISSN: 03012115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2010.03.017     Document Type: Letter

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