Macrophages infiltrate the human and rat decidua during term and preterm labor: Evidence that decidual inflammation precedes labor

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hamilton, Sarah ^a   Oomomian, Yasamin ^a   Stephen, Gillian ^a   Shynlova, Oksana ^b   Tower, Clare L ^a   Garrod, Ainslie ^a   Lye, Stephen J ^b   Jones, Rebecca L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decidua; Human reproduction; Labor; Leucocyte; Macrophage; Myometrium; Parturition; Preterm labor; Reproductive immunology

Indexed keywords

MIFEPRISTONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; MACROPHAGE; MYOMETRIUM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; UTERUS; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TERM BIRTH; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; DECIDUA; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MACROPHAGES; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOMETRIUM; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TERM BIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860241817     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.095505     Document Type: Article

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