Placental Hofbauer cells and complications of pregnancy

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1221, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-108

  Tang, Zhonghua ^a   Abrahams, Vikki M ^a   Mor, Gil ^a   Guller, Seth ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorioamnionitis; Fetal macrophages; Hofbauer cells; Placenta; Preterm delivery; Villitis of unknown etiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGICAL CHORIOAMNIONITIS; HOFBAUER CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; VILLITIS OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY;

EID: 79952635552     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05932.x     Document Type: Article

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