Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Pages 538-542 , May 2007

Soluble Factors From LPS- and PHA-Activated PBMC Induce MAPK, Stat1 and Stat3 Phosphorylation in Primary Cultures of Human Term Placental Trophoblasts: Implications for Infection and Prematurity

,Accepted 20 June 2006.

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☆ Supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources, General Clinical Research Center Grant MO1 RR-14467, and by a grant from the Presbyterian Health Foundation of Oklahoma.

PII: S0143-4004(06)00169-X

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2006.06.013

Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Pages 538-542 , May 2007

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