Amniotic Fluid Interleukin-6 and Interleukin-8 Levels Predict the Success of Tocolysis in Patients With Preterm Labor

A Case–Control Study of Chorioamnionic Infection and Histologic Chorioamnionitis in Prematurity

1988 • 993 citations

Infection and Preterm Labor

1988 • 717 citations

The relationship of amniotic fluid cytokines and preterm delivery, amniotic fluid infection, histologic chorioamnionitis, and chorioamnion infection.

1993 • 580 citations

A comparative study of the diagnostic performance of amniotic fluid glucose, white blood cell count, interleukin-6, and Gram stain in the detection of microbial invasion in patients with preterm premature rupture of membranes

1993 • 409 citations

Epidemiologic characteristics of preterm delivery: Etiologic heterogeneity

1991 • 381 citations

The diagnostic and prognostic value of amniotic fluid white blood cell count, glucose, interleukin-6, and Gram stain in patients with preterm labor and intact membranes

1993 • 379 citations

Contribution of preterm delivery to perinatal mortality.

1976 • 325 citations

The association of chorioamnionitis with preterm delivery.

1985 • 233 citations

Interleukin-6 stimulates prostaglandin production by human amnion and decidual cells

1991 • 232 citations

Do tocolytic agents stop preterm labor? A critical and comprehensive review of efficacy and safety

1993 • 225 citations

Preterm birth prevention: Where are we?

1993 • 209 citations

The effect of the oxytocin antagonist atosiban on preterm uterine activity in the human

1994 • 182 citations

The monocyte-derived neutrophil activating peptide (NAP/interleukin 8) stimulates human neutrophil arachidonate-5-lipoxygenase, but not the release of cellular arachidonate.

1989 • 172 citations

Neutrophil attractant/activating peptide-1/interleukin-8: Association with histologic chorioamnionitis, preterm delivery, and bioactive amniotic fluid leukoattractants

1993 • 155 citations

Amniotic fluid interleukin-6 levels correlate with histologic chorioamnionitis and amniotic fluid cultures in patients in premature labor with intact membranes

1993 • 148 citations

Immunologic aspects of preterm labor.

1991 • 89 citations

Physiology of uterine activity in pregnancy

1993 • 8 citations