Structural characteristics of term human fetal membranes: a novel zone of extreme morphological alteration within the rupture site

Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth

1990 • 1,080 citations

A review of premature birth and subclinical infection

1992 • 919 citations

Confocal immunofluorescence localization of collagen types I, III, IV, V and VI and their ultrastructural organization in term human fetal membranes

1993 • 218 citations

Collagen content of human amniotic membranes: effect of gestation length and premature rupture.

1981 • 142 citations

Bacterial protease-induced reduction of chorioamniotic membrane strength and elasticity.

1987 • 117 citations

Management of the Patient with Premature Rupture of the Membranes

1980 • 83 citations

Deformation and creep in the human chorioamniotic sac

1979 • 70 citations

A STUDY OF THE ELASTICITY AND TENSION OF FETAL MEMBRANES AND OF THE RELATION OF THE AREA OF THE GESTATIONAL SAC TO THE AREA OF THE UTERINE CAVITY

1976 • 69 citations

Decidual Activation in Parturition: Examination of Amniotic Fluid for Mediators of the Inflammatory Response^a

1991 • 64 citations

The effect of labor on the rheologic response of chorioamniotic membranes.

1982 • 63 citations

Etiology of Preterm Premature Rupture of the Membranes

1986 • 56 citations

The concentration of collagen and the collagenolytic activity in the amnion and the chorion

1989 • 52 citations

Full-term and prematurely ruptured fetal membranes

1981 • 47 citations

The Human Fetal Membranes: A Target Tissue for Relaxin*

1986 • 44 citations

Human recombinant interleukin‐ 1α increases biosynthesis of collagenase and hyaluronic acid in cultured human chorionic cells

1989 • 43 citations

Degenerative changes and detection of plasminogen in fetal membranes that rupture prematurely

1983 • 38 citations

Is the Collagen Content Reduced when the Fetal Membranes Rupture?

1987 • 22 citations

Different characteristics of amniotic and cervical collagenous tissue during pregnancy and delivery: A morphologic study

1990 • 18 citations

Collagenolysis in human vaginal tissue during pregnancy and delivery: A light and electron microscopic study

1986 • 14 citations

Study of the connective tissue of human fetal membranes

1980 • 11 citations

Effect of meconium on the strength of chorioamniotic membranes.

1980 • 11 citations

Site variability in the solubility of collagen of human fetal membranes

1986 • 6 citations