Cervical Remodeling/Ripening at Term and Preterm Delivery: The Same Mechanism Initiated by Different Mediators and Different Effector Cells

Complement Activation Triggers Metalloproteinases Release Inducing Cervical Remodeling and Preterm Birth in Mice

(2011) Juan M. Gonzalez et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY

The Molecular Mechanisms of Cervical Ripening Differ between Term and Preterm Birth

(2011) Roxane Holt et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Care for women with prior preterm birth

(2010) Jay D. Iams et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Invasion of the leukocytes into the fetal-maternal interface during pregnancy

(2010) Nardhy Gomez-Lopez et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

Cervical remodeling during pregnancy and parturition

(2010) Brenda Timmons et al.   TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

The cervical mucus plug: Structured review of the literature

(2009) Naja Becher et al.   ACTA OBSTETRICIA ET GYNECOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA

Preterm and Term Cervical Ripening in CD1 Mice (Mus musculus): Similar or Divergent Molecular Mechanisms?1

(2009) Juan M. Gonzalez et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

The transcriptome of cervical ripening in human pregnancy before the onset of labor at term: Identification of novel molecular functions involved in this process

(2009) Sonia S. Hassan et al.   Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Fragment Bb in amniotic fluid: evidence for complement activation by the alternative pathway in women with intra-amniotic infection/inflammation

(2009) Edi Vaisbuch et al.   Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Complement activation fragment Bb in early pregnancy and spontaneous preterm birth

(2008) Anne M. Lynch et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Cervicovaginal matrix metalloproteinase-9 and cervical ripening in human term parturition

(2008) Suk-Joo Choi et al.   European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Increased glomerular matrix metalloproteinase activity in murine lupus nephritis

(2008) Anders A. Tveita et al.   KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL

Primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions to reduce the morbidity and mortality of preterm birth

(2008) Jay D Iams et al.   LANCET

Epidemiology and causes of preterm birth

(2008) Robert L Goldenberg et al.   LANCET

Different secretion patterns of matrix metalloproteinases and IL-8 and effect of corticotropin-releasing hormone in preterm and term cervical fibroblasts

(2008) A. Dubicke et al.   MOLECULAR HUMAN REPRODUCTION