The feto-maternal immune response to equine placentitis.

Carleigh Elizabeth Fedorka Barry A BallKirsten E ScogginShavahn C LouxMats H T TroedssonAmanda A Adams

Published in: American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) (2019)

The maternal response to placentitis is primarily pro-inflammatory while the fetus appears to play a regulatory role in this inflammation. Additionally, amniotic fluid sampling may be more diagnostic of ascending placentitis than circulating cytokines.

Keyphrases

birth weight
pregnancy outcomes
oxidative stress
transcription factor
pulmonary artery