Heightened Pro-Inflammatory Effect of Preeclamptic Placental Microvesicles on Peripheral Blood Immune Cells in Humans

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Holder, Beth S ^a,b   Tower, Clare L ^a   Jones, Carolyn J P ^a   Aplin, John D ^a   Abrahams, Vikki M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Inflammation; Placenta; Preeclampsia; Reproductive immunology

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFLAMMATION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREGNANCY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST;

EID: 84864012835     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.094631     Document Type: Article

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