Short fetal leukocyte telomere length and preterm prelabor rupture of the membranes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Menon, Ramkumar ^a   Yu, Jie ^b,c   Basanta Henry, Patrice ^b   Brou, Lina ^d   Berga, Sarah L ^b,c   Fortunato, Stephen J ^e   Taylor, Robert N ^b,c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Perinatal Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMNIONITIS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; FETUS LEUKOCYTE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLACENTA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE SHORTENING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; FETUS BLOOD; LEUKOCYTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; TELOMERE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; TELOMERE;

EID: 84863177628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031136     Document Type: Article

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