Association of antenatal steroid use with cord blood immune biomarkers in preterm births

Early Human Development

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 559-564

  Kumar, Praveen ^a,b,c   Venners, Scott A ^d   Fu, Lingling ^e   Pearson, Colleen ^e   Ortiz, Katherin ^e   Wang, Xiaobin ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Children's Memorial Research Center   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenatal steroids; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Cord blood cytokines; Nerve growth factor; Neurotrophin

Indexed keywords

ANTENATAL STEROID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; STEROID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL TREATMENT; NEWBORN; PLACENTAL INFLAMMATION; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-10; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; STEROIDS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 79960456428     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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