Inflammation and Pregnancy

Peebles - Inflammation and Pregnancy
£45.00 (discounted from £90.00)
£45.00
Authors/editors: Donald M Peebles, Leslie Myatt
ISBN: 978-1-84214-272-1
Page count: 208
Publisher: Informa
Publication year: 2006

In this text, an international panel of prestigious authors explore the complex relationship between inflammation, the mother, placenta and fetus. Providing comprehensive coverage by discussing both basic sciences and clinical applications, the book also ensures wide appeal by presenting a synthesis of the maternal and fetal aspects of immunological disorders in pregnancy.

Table of contents:
  1. Inflammatory cells and cytokine production
  2. Free radicals, oxidatives stress and pregnancy
  3. Pregnancy- related changes to maternal host immune defenses
  4. Implantation trophoblast/decidual interactions, and local inflammatory changes
  5. Inflamation and reccurrent pregnancy loss
  6. Inflammation and normal labor
  7. Role od Inflammatory mediators in preterm premature rupture of fetal membranes
  8. Maternal inflammatory conditions and pregnancy
  9. Pre-eclampsia and the systemic inflammatory response
  10. The fetal inflammatory response syndrome
  11. Aminiotic fluid inflammation and fetal lung development
  12. Infection, inflamation and perinatal brain injury

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