Amniotic fluid neutrophils can phagocytize bacteria: A mechanism for microbial killing in the amniotic cavity

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Gomez Lopez, Nardhy ^a,b,e   Romero, Roberto ^a,b,c,d,e   Garcia Flores, Valeria ^a,b,e   Xu, Yi ^a,b,e   Leng, Yaozhu ^a,b,e   Alhousseini, Ali ^b   Hassan, Sonia S ^a,b,e   Panaitescu, Bogdan ^a,b,e  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Wayne State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

acute chorioamnionitis; clinical chorioamnionitis; cytokine; fetal inflammatory response; fever; funisitis; human; inflammation; innate immune cells; interleukin 6; intra amniotic infection; labor; microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity; parturition; phagocytosis; pregnancy; preterm birth; preterm labor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION; AMNION FLUID; AMNIONITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INTRAAMNIOTIC INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA; NEUTROPHIL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; YOUNG ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOLYSIS; CELL CULTURE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CYTOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLYSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; NEUTROPHILS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 85023187813     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aji.12723     Document Type: Article

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