The peripheral whole-blood transcriptome of acute pyelonephritis in human pregnancy

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-53

  Madan, Ichchha ^a,b   Than, Nandor Gabor ^a,b   Romero, Roberto ^a,c,d,g   Chaemsaithong, Piya ^a,b   Miranda, Jezid ^a,b   Tarca, Adi L ^a,e   Bhatti, Gaurav ^a,e   Draghici, Sorin ^e   Yeo, Lami ^a,b   Mazor, Moshe ^f   Hassan, Sonia S ^a,b   Chaiworapongsa, Tinnakorn ^a,b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Wayne State University   (United States)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^g WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; High dimensional biology; Infection during pregnancy; Innate immunity; mRNA; PAX gene; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; JANUS KINASE; STAT PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UPREGULATION; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PYELONEPHRITIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890505127     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpm-2013-0085     Document Type: Article

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