The Recruitment and activation of leukocytes into the immune cervix: Further support that cervical remodeling involves an immune and inflammatory mechanism

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Myers, Dean A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; CD147 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGENASE; DECORIN; FIBRONECTIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; NITRIC OXIDE; PROGESTERONE;

CELL ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; LABOR; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL RIPENING; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MYELOID CELLS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84869458912     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.105049     Document Type: Note

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