SLIT3 is Increased in Supracervical Human Foetal Membranes and in Labouring Myometrium and Regulates Pro-Inflammatory Mediators

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 297-311

  Lim, Ratana ^a,b   Barker, Gillian ^a,b   Lappas, Martha ^a,b  

^a MERCY HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foetal membranes; Human labour; Inflammation; Myometrium; SLIT3

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; CYTOKINE; GELATIN; GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; RECEPTOR ACTIVATOR OF NUCLEAR FACTOR KAPPA B; SLIT PROTEIN; SLIT3 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; IL8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MMP9 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PTGS2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SLIT3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMNION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; LABOR ONSET; MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE CERVIX; ZYMOGRAPHY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

AMNION; CERVIX UTERI; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DINOPROSTONE; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; LABOR ONSET; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MYOMETRIUM; NF-KAPPA B; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREMATURE BIRTH; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84895806149     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aji.12181     Document Type: Article

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