Preterm birth: Inflammation, fetal injury and treatment strategies

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 119, Issue , 2017, Pages 62-66

  Boyle, Ashley K ^a   Rinaldi, Sara F ^a   Norman, Jane E ^a   Stock, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fetal injury; Inflammation; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CEREBRAL PALSY; FETAL INJURY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS MORTALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MORBIDITY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; UTERUS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFLAMMATION; PRECISION MEDICINE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; TOCOLYTIC AGENTS; UTERUS;

EID: 85028239837     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: 18727603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jri.2016.11.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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