Are amniotic fluid neutrophils in women with intraamniotic infection and/or inflammation of fetal or maternal origin?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 217, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 693.e1-693.e16

  Gomez Lopez, Nardhy ^a,b   Romero, Roberto ^a,b,c,d   Xu, Yi ^a   Leng, Yaozhu ^a   Garcia Flores, Valeria ^a   Miller, Derek ^a   Jacques, Suzanne M ^a,b   Hassan, Sonia S ^a   Faro, Jonathan ^a   Alsamsam, Adham ^a   Alhousseini, Ali ^a   Gomez Roberts, Hunter ^a   Panaitescu, Bogdan ^a   Yeo, Lami ^a   Maymon, Eli ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (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)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; CYTOKINE; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPHIL; NEWBORN; PLACENTA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; TERM BIRTH;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEUTROPHILS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 85031505392     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2017.09.013     Document Type: Article

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