Inflammation and pregnancy / edited by Donald M. Peebles and Leslie Myatt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peebles, Donald M.

Myatt, Leslie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inflammation.

Pregnancy--Complications.

Pregnancy.

Pregnancy Complications, Infectious.

Medical Subjects:

Pregnancy Complications, Infectious.

Inflammation.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, U.K. : Informa Healthcare ; Boca Raton, FL : Distributed in North and South America by Taylor & Francis, 2006.

Contents:

1 Inflammatory cells and cytokine production / Joan S Hunt, Ramsey H McIntire 1

2 Free radicals, oxidative stress, and pregnancy / Lucilla Poston, Maarten Raijmakers 13

3 Pregnancy-related changes to maternal host immune defenses / Denise G Hemmings, Larry J Guilbert 29

4 Implantation, trophoblast/decidual interactions, and local inflammatory changes / Siobhan Quenby, Gill Vince, Mark A Turner 47

5 Inflammation and recurrent pregnancy loss / Susan Laird, Tin-Chiu Li 61

6 Inflammation and normal labor / Murray D Mitchell, Jeffrey A Keelan 79

7 Role of inflammatory mediators in preterm premature rupture of fetal membranes / Ramkumar Menon, Stephen J Fortunato 95

8 Maternal inflammatory conditions and pregnancy / Mandish K Dhanjal, Catherine Nelson-Piercy 107

9 Pre-eclampsia and the systemic inflammatory response / Chris WG Redman, Ian L Sargent 135

10 The fetal inflammatory response syndrome / Roberto Romero, Jimmy Espinoza, Luis F Goncalves, Juan Pedro Kusanovic, Ricardo Gomez 149

11 Amniotic fluid inflammation and fetal lung development / Timothy JM Moss, Alan H Jobe 173

12 Infection, inflammation, and perinatal brain injury / Susern Tan, Donald M Peebles, David Edwards 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1842142720

OCLC:

63136929

Publisher Number:

9781842142721 (hbk.)