Characteristic Changes in Decidual Gene Expression Signature in Spontaneous Term Parturition

• Main Authors: Haidy El-Azzamy (Author), Andrea Balogh (Author), Roberto Romero (Author), Yi Xu (Author), Christopher LaJeunesse (Author), Olesya Plazyo (Author), Zhonghui Xu (Author), Theodore G. Price (Author), Zhong Dong (Author), Adi L. Tarca (Author), Zoltan Papp (Author), Sonia S. Hassan (Author), Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa (Author), Chong Jai Kim (Author), Nardhy Gomez-Lopez (Author), Nandor Gabor Than (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Pathologists & the Korean Society for Cytopathology, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background The decidua has been implicated in the "terminal pathway" of human term parturition, which is characterized by the activation of pro-inflammatory pathways in gestational tissues. However, the transcriptomic changes in the decidua leading to terminal pathway activation have not b...