Air pollution, inflammation and preterm birth: A potential mechanistic link

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 219-224

  Vadillo Ortega, Felipe ^a   Osornio Vargas, Alvaro ^b   Buxton, Miatta A ^c   Sánchez, Brisa N ^c   Rojas Bracho, Leonora ^d   Viveros Alcaráz, Martin ^e   Castillo Castrejón, Marisol ^a   Beltrán Montoya, Jorge ^f   Brown, Daniel G ^g   O'Neill, Marie S ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Instituto Nacional de Ecologia   (Mexico)

^e SECRETARÍA DE SALUD   (Mexico)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PERINATOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; CYTOKINE;

AIR POLLUTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECIDUA; DIET; GENOTOXICITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MEXICO; MICROENVIRONMENT; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK REDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; THROMBOSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CYTOKINES; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MEXICO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84892366240     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2013.11.042     Document Type: Article

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