Increasing maternal body mass index is associated with systemic inflammation in the mother and the activation of distinct placental inflammatory pathways

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Aye, Irving L M H ^a   Lager, Susanne ^a   Ramirez, Vanessa I ^a   Gaccioli, Francesca ^a   Dudley, Donald J ^a   Jansson, Thomas ^a   Powell, Theresa L ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Innate immune response; Obesity

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; I KAPPA B ALPHA; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEPTIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; STAT3 PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CASP10 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CASPASE 10; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BODY MASS INDEX; MATERNAL PLASMA; MOTHER; PLACENTAL INFLAMMATION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; WESTERN BLOTTING; ADOLESCENT; CELL CULTURE; COMPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CASPASE 10; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NF-KAPPA B; OBESITY; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TROPHOBLASTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903769477     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.116186     Document Type: Article

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