Extracellular matrix dynamics and fetal membrane rupture

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 140-153

  Strauss III, Jerome F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

amnion; chorion; collagens; extracellular matrix; fibronectin; matrix metalloproteinase; PPROM

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 10; COLLAGEN TYPE 12; COLLAGEN TYPE 13; COLLAGEN TYPE 14; COLLAGEN TYPE 17; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 5; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; COLLAGEN TYPE 9; CYTOKINE; DECORIN; ENDOSTATIN; ENTACTIN; FIBRILLIN; FIBULIN; FIBULIN 5; GELATIN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; LAMIN A; LAMININ; MESSENGER RNA; PROCOLLAGEN; TENASCIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 3; VITRONECTIN;

ALLELE; AMNION; APOPTOSIS; BIRTH; DNA METHYLATION; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84871570890     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719111424454     Document Type: Review

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