Inflammation and preterm birth

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 67-78

  Cappelletti, Monica ^a   Della Bella, Silvia ^b   Ferrazzi, Enrico ^c   Mavilio, Domenico ^b   Divanovic, Senad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Infection; Innate immune cells; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DENDRITIC CELL; EXPERIMENTAL SHEEP; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTION; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INNATE IMMUNITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYCOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MACROPHAGES; NEUTROPHILS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 84953432453     PISSN: 07415400     EISSN: 19383673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.3MR0615-272RR     Document Type: Article

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