Interaction between pathogenic bacteria and intrauterine leukocytes triggers alternative molecular signaling cascades leading to labor in women

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4792-4799

  Estrada Gutierrez, Guadalupe ^a   Gomez Lopez, Nardhy ^a,c   Zaga Clavellina, Veronica ^a   Giono Cerezo, Silvia ^b   Espejel Nuñez, Aurora ^a   Gonzalez Jimenez, Marco Antonio ^a   Sosa, Salvador Espino ^a   Olson, David M ^c   Vadillo Ortega, Felipe ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PERINATOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMNION; ARTICLE; CHORION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEGRADATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; LEUKOCYTE; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

AMNION; CHORION; DINOPROSTONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTES; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 78049427245     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00522-10     Document Type: Article

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