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Change in mononuclear leukocyte responsiveness in midpregnancy and subsequent preterm birth

Margaret Harper1, Liwu Li, Yuan Zhao

  • 1Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, Columbia University, New York, New York, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Women and Infants Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, Case Western Reserve University-MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, and the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; the Division of Inflammation Biology and Immunology, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia; the George Washington University Biostatistics Center, Washington, DC; and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland.

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|May 3, 2013
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