The entry of fetal and amniotic fluid components into the uterine vessel circulation leads to sterile inflammatory processes during parturition

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Kobayashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid; Inflammation; Myometrium; Parturition; Stretch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874197029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00321     Document Type: Review

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