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Phenotypic and metabolic characteristics of monocytes and granulocytes in normal pregnancy and maternal infection.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology - 1 Nov 2001
Naccasha N, Gervasi M T, Chaiworapongsa T, Berman S, Yoon B H, Maymon E, Romero R
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OBJECTIVE: Normal pregnancy has been proposed to be a state of physiologic activation of the innate limb of the immune response. Recent studies have concluded that normal pregnancy produces inflammatory changes in peripheral blood leukocytes akin to those of sepsis. This unexpected observation has implications that are critical to understanding the susceptibility of pregnant women to sepsis, the pathophysiology...
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