Demystifying Animal Models of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Touching Bench and Bedside

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 567-584

  Bonney, Elizabeth A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Animal models; Pre eclampsia; Pregnancy loss; Premature birth; Untrauterine growth retardation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CRE RECOMBINASE; ESTROGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LAGOMORPH; LUTEOLYSIS; MATERNAL STRESS; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OVARIECTOMY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM; RECURRENT ABORTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84877697337     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aji.12102     Document Type: Article

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