Fetal immune response to chorioamnionitis

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-67

  Kallapur, Suhas G ^a   Presicce, Pietro ^a   Rueda, Cesar M ^a   Jobe, Alan H ^a   Chougnet, Claire A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

animal models; fetal inflammatory response; infection; prematurity

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; ENCEPHALITIS; FETAL IMMUNE RESPONSE; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPH NODE; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; THYMUS; ADULT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; SPLEEN;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BETAMETHASONE; BRAIN; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; SPLEEN; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84891754995     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1361823     Document Type: Article

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