Intrauterine Candida albicans infection elicits severe inflammation in fetal sheep

Pediatric Research

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 716-722

  Payne, Matthew S ^a   Kemp, Matthew W ^a   Kallapur, Suhas G ^a,b   Kannan, Paranthaman Senthamarai ^b   Saito, Masatoshi ^a,c   Miura, Yuichiro ^a,c   Newnham, John P ^a   Stock, Sarah ^a,d   Ireland, Demelza J ^a   Kramer, Boris W ^a,e   Jobe, Alan H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 2; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYTOKINE;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EUTHANASIA; FETAL INFLAMMATION; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS LUNG; FETUS MEMBRANE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; NONHUMAN; OVINE MODEL; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; UTERUS; VETERINARY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SKIN; UTERUS;

EID: 84900865355     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2014.35     Document Type: Article

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