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

Gomez-Lopez, Nardhy, Romero, Roberto, Garcia-Flores, Valeria et al. (2017). Amniotic fluid neutrophils can phagocytize bacteria: A mechanism for microbial killing in the amniotic cavity . American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 78(4), 10.1111/aji.12723

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  • Gomez-Lopez, Nardhy; Romero, Roberto; Garcia-Flores, Valeria; Xu, Yi; Leng, Yaozhu; Alhousseini, Ali; Hassan, Sonia S; Panaitescu, Bogdan

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publication date

  • October 1, 2017

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keywords

  • ACTIVATING PEPTIDE-1 INTERLEUKIN-8
  • BLOOD-CELL COUNT
  • CLINICAL CHORIOAMNIONITIS
  • GRAM STAIN
  • GROUP-B STREPTOCOCCUS
  • INTRAAMNIOTIC INFECTION
  • Immunology
  • Life Sciences & Biomedicine
  • POLYMERASE-CHAIN-REACTION
  • POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES
  • PRETERM PREMATURE RUPTURE
  • Reproductive Biology
  • Science & Technology
  • TUMOR-NECROSIS-FACTOR
  • 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

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volume

  • 78

issue

  • 4