Systemic inflammatory priming in normal pregnancy and preeclampsia: the role of circulating syncytiotrophoblast microparticles.

Systemic inflammatory responsiveness was studied in normal human pregnancy and its specific inflammatory disorder, pre-eclampsia. Compared with nonpregnancy, monocytes were primed to produce more TNF-alpha throughout normal pregnancy, more IL-12p70 in the first and second trimesters, and more IL-18...

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Main Authors: Germain, S, Sacks, G, Sooranna, SR, Soorana, SR, Sargent, I, Redman, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2007