Fetal sex and preterm birth

Intrauterine Infection and Preterm Delivery

2000 • 2,501 citations

Review: Sex and the Human Placenta: Mediating Differential Strategies of Fetal Growth and Survival

2009 • 730 citations

Does fetal sex affect pregnancy outcome?

2007 • 402 citations

Offspring sex and pregnancy outcome by length of gestation

2003 • 249 citations

Gender aspects of preterm birth

2003 • 249 citations

Bacterial vaginosis, the inflammatory response and the risk of preterm birth: a role for genetic epidemiology in the prevention of preterm birth

2004 • 227 citations

Fetal sex and preterm birth: are males at greater risk?

2002 • 219 citations

Neuroendocrine Mechanisms in Pregnancy and Parturition

2010 • 207 citations

Gender aspects of preterm birth

2003 • 205 citations

Impact of Maternal Undernutrition During the Periconceptional Period, Fetal Number, and Fetal Sex on the Development of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary Adrenal Axis in Sheep During Late Gestation1

2002 • 196 citations

Immune Cells Have Sex and So Should Journal Articles

2012 • 186 citations

International migration and adverse birth outcomes: role of ethnicity, region of origin and destination

2009 • 171 citations

The potential for probiotics to prevent bacterial vaginosis and preterm labor

2003 • 154 citations

Maternal Asthma as a Model for Examining Fetal Sex-specific Effects on Maternal Physiology and Placental Mechanisms that Regulate Human Fetal Growth

2004 • 151 citations

Sex-specific alterations in placental 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2 activity and early postnatal clinical course following antenatal betamethasone

2009 • 150 citations

G-CSF-mediated inhibition of JNK is a key mechanism for Lactobacillus rhamnosus-induced suppression of TNF production in macrophages

2006 • 139 citations

Sex hormone metabolism in lung development and maturation

2010 • 131 citations

Placental Cytokine Expression Covaries with Maternal Asthma Severity and Fetal Sex

2009 • 127 citations

Understanding the Sexome: Measuring and Reporting Sex Differences in Gene Systems

2012 • 122 citations

Effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 supernatant and fetal sex on lipopolysaccharide-induced cytokine and prostaglandin-regulating enzymes in human placental trophoblast cells: implications for treatment of bacterial vaginosis and prevention of preterm labor

2009 • 105 citations

Sex-specific differences in placental global gene expression in pregnancies complicated by asthma

2011 • 96 citations

Fetal sex and indicated very preterm birth: results of the EPIPAGE study

2004 • 94 citations

Maternal risk factors for preterm birth: a country-based population analysis

2011 • 90 citations

Sexually dimorphic effects of maternal asthma during pregnancy on placental glucocorticoid metabolism and fetal growth

2005 • 84 citations

Histologic placental lesions in women with recurrent preterm delivery

2005 • 72 citations

Nucleic Acid-Based Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis and Improved Management Using Probiotic Lactobacilli

2004 • 69 citations

Examination of the association between male gender and preterm delivery

2008 • 69 citations

Effect of Fetal Sex on Pregnancy Outcome in Twin Pregnancies

2009 • 65 citations

Sex, Birth Weight, and the Risk of Stillbirth in Scotland, 1980-1996

2000 • 64 citations

Influence of sex and glucocorticoid exposure on preterm placental pro-oxidant-antioxidant balance

2011 • 61 citations

The Placental Response to Excess Maternal Glucocorticoid Exposure Differs Between the Male and Female Conceptus in Spiny Mice1

2011 • 58 citations

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 Stimulates Colony-Stimulating Factor 3 (Granulocyte) (CSF3) Output in Placental Trophoblast Cells in a Fetal Sex-Dependent Manner1

2010 • 45 citations

Effects of Maternal Dexamethasone Treatment in Early Pregnancy on Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Fetal Sheep

2009 • 44 citations

The Association Between Fetal Sex and Preterm Birth in Twin Pregnancies

2004 • 38 citations

Fetomaternal Cell Trafficking and the Stem Cell Debate

2007 • 36 citations

Preterm birth rates in Chinese women in China, Hong Kong and Australia - The price of Westernisation

2011 • 35 citations

Heat-killed Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Modulates Urocortin and Cytokine Release in Primary Trophoblast Cells

2010 • 34 citations

Do Alterations in Placental 11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase (11βHSD) Activities Explain Differences in Fetal Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Function Following Periconceptional Undernutrition or Twinning in Sheep?

2009 • 23 citations

Sex of the First-born and Risk of Preterm Birth in the Subsequent Pregnancy

2011 • 15 citations

Fetal Gender Effects on Induction of Labor in Postdate Pregnancies

2012 • 14 citations

The effect of parental race on fetal and infant mortality in twin gestations.

2004 • 11 citations

Histologic placental lesions in women with recurrent preterm delivery

2005 • 7 citations

The impact of fetal gender on prematurity in dichorionic twin gestations after in vitro fertilization

2010 • 5 citations