Decidual cytokines and pregnancy complications: Focus on spontaneous miscarriage

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 83-89

  Lash, Gendie E ^a   Ernerudh, Jan ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Decidua; Miscarriage; Spiral artery remodelling; Trophoblast invasion

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; DECIDUA; FETUS GROWTH; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKOCYTE; MYOMETRIUM; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TERM BIRTH; TROPHOBLAST; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; UTERUS; VASCULARIZATION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DECIDUA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERUS;

EID: 84926262309     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: 18727603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jri.2015.02.003     Document Type: Article

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