Preterm birth, intrauterine infection, and fetal inflammation

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages 574-

  Kemp, Matthew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fetus; Infection; Inflammation; Injury; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 2; CD14 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5A RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; DEFENSIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HUMAN NEUTROPHIL PEPTIDE 1; HUMAN NEUTROPHIL PEPTIDE 4; I KAPPA B; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MELANOMA DIFFERENTIATION ASSOCIATED GENE 5; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR 2; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID INDUCIBLE PROTEIN I; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN G;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AMNIONITIS; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DERMATITIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FETAL INFLAMMATION; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FETUS MEMBRANE; FUNISITIS; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREMATURE LABOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UREAPLASMA INFECTION;

EID: 84919708457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00574     Document Type: Review

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