Relaxin and the Human Fetal Membranes

Inferences, questions and possibilities in Toll-like receptor signalling

2004 • 1,458 citations

The interface between innate and adaptive immunity

2004 • 898 citations

Premature Rupture of the Fetal Membranes

1998 • 753 citations

Stimulus Specificity of Gene Expression Programs Determined by Temporal Control of IKK Activity

2005 • 504 citations

Preterm labor is induced by intraamniotic infusions of interleukin-1β and tumor necrosis factor-α but not by interleukin-6 or interleukin-8 in a nonhuman primate model

2006 • 320 citations

Clinical significance of intra-amniotic inflammation in patients with preterm premature rupture of membranes

2004 • 318 citations

The Physiology of Fetal Membrane Rupture: Insight Gained from the Determination of Physical Properties

2006 • 305 citations

The extracellular matrix of the human fetal membranes: Structure and function

1998 • 240 citations

Human spontaneous labor without histologic chorioamnionitis is characterized by an acute inflammation gene expression signature

2006 • 220 citations

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

1994 • 207 citations

Toll-Like Receptor Signaling and Regulation of Cytokine Gene Expression in the Immune System

2002 • 181 citations

Term Human Fetal Membranes Have a Weak Zone Overlying the Lower Uterine Pole and Cervix Before Onset of Labor1

2004 • 135 citations

Leukocyte Density and Proinflammatory Mediator Expression in Regional Human Fetal Membranes and Decidua Before and During Labot at Term

2006 • 100 citations

Proteoglycans and hyaluronan in human fetal membranes

2001 • 98 citations

An Autocrine/Paracrine Role of Human Decidual Relaxin. II. Stromelysin-1 (MMP-3) and Tissue Inhibitor of Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1)1

1997 • 95 citations

An Autocrine/Paracrine Role of Human Decidual Relaxin. I. Interstitial Collagenase (Matrix Metalloproteinase-1) and Tissue Plasminogen Activator1

1997 • 93 citations

Expression of Toll-like receptors in the human decidua.

2007 • 91 citations

Biomechanical analysis of human chorioamniotic membranes

1990 • 89 citations

Separation of amnion from choriodecidua is an integral event to the rupture of normal term fetal membranes and constitutes a significant component of the work required

2006 • 82 citations

Premature rupture of the fetal membranes: Is the amnion the major determinant?

2006 • 81 citations

Disparate effects of relaxin and TGF 1: relaxin increases, but TGF 1 inhibits, the relaxin receptor and the production of IGFBP-1 in human endometrial stromal/decidual cells

2004 • 61 citations

The Low-Density Lipoprotein Class A Module of the Relaxin Receptor (Leucine-Rich Repeat Containing G-Protein Coupled Receptor 7): Its Role in Signaling and Trafficking to the Cell Membrane

2006 • 50 citations

Transabdominal intra-amniotic endoscopic assessment of previable premature rupture of membranes

1998 • 48 citations

The Young's modulus of fetal preterm and term amniotic membranes

2006 • 48 citations

A relaxin-mediated pathway to preterm premature rupture of the fetal membranes that is independent of infection

1998 • 44 citations

The Human Relaxin Receptor (LGR7): Expression in the Fetal Membranes and Placenta

2005 • 42 citations

Physical properties of the chorioamnion throughout gestation

2002 • 40 citations

Confocal and conventional immunofluorescence and ultrastructural localisation of intracellular strength-giving components of human amniochorion.

1993 • 39 citations

Relaxin Stimulates Collagenase and Plasminogen Activator Secretion by Dispersed Human Amnion and Chorion Cells<u>in Vitro</u>

1983 • 33 citations

Characteristics of the binding of 32P-labelled human relaxins to the human fetal membranes

1995 • 31 citations

Decidual relaxins: Gene and protein up-regulation in preterm premature rupture of the membranes by complementary DNA arrays and quantitative immunocytochemistry

2002 • 29 citations

Cryofracture of human term amniochorion

1994 • 19 citations