Maternal circulating leukocytes display early chemotactic responsiveness during late gestation

• Main Authors: Gomez-Lopez Nardhy (Author), Tanaka Satomi (Author), Zaeem Zoya (Author), Metz Gerlinde A (Author), Olson David M (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Parturition has been widely described as an immunological response; however, it is unknown how this is triggered. We hypothesized that an early event in parturition is an increased responsiveness of peripheral leukocytes to chemotact...