Biomarkers for ectopic pregnancy and pregnancy of unknown location

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1107-1116

  Senapati, Suneeta ^a   Barnhart, Kurt T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

biomarker; Ectopic pregnancy; pregnancy of unknown location; proteomics

Indexed keywords

A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEASE 12; ACTIVIN A; ADAM PROTEIN; ADRENOMEDULLIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CREATINE KINASE; CYTOKINE; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; INHIBIN A; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEUKEMIC INHIBITORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MUCIN 1; MYOGLOBIN; PLACENTA LIKE GROWTH FACTOR; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC BETA GLYCOPROTEIN 1; PROGESTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACCURACY; ANGIOGENESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS LUTEUM; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OF UNKNOWN LOCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPHOBLAST;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84876409473     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.11.038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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