Article
Lipopolysaccharide-induced premature cervical ripening and inflammation in pregnant mice can be alleviated by nicotine
2020-04-30
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<h4>Background: </h4> Clinical treatment of preterm birth (PTB) is usually dependent on inhibiting uterine contractions. Such therapy is only effective in the short-term and cannot fundamentally low the incidence of PTB. Premature cervical maturation is another important cause of PTB; it is associated with invasion of macrophages, which produce proinflammatory cytokines. We previously found that activation of the...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 67ae7c57-862c-553f-98d3-b5746c9a8fcc
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-24975/v1
