… We hypothesized that this condition is associated with altered expression of natural antimicrobial
… that the fetal membranes and placenta are key sources of natural antimicrobials in the …

… the antimicrobial activity of cells isolated from fetal membranes or their conditioned medium.
The effect of fetal membranes… investigated by comparing the antimicrobial effect of intact and …

… , elafin mRNA expression is decreased in cases of preterm membrane rupture but is … protease
activity within the fetal membranes. The pattern of natural antimicrobial expression in both …

… It also disclosed that the antimicrobial effects of fetal membranes are significantly stronger
on … The other limitation was the elastic nature of fetal membranes which made it difficult to cut …

… is surrounded by amniotic fluid contained in extraembryonic tissues known collectively as
the fetal membranes. The inner layer, the amnion, contains the amniotic fluid, whilst the outer …

… The fetal membrane and transparent membrane are composed of an inner epithelial layer …
The membrane of amnion and chorion are important sources of natural antimicrobials found in …

… between the chorion and amnion layers of fetal membranes and/or choriodecidual infection
(… of antimicrobial molecules at term gestation. Natural antimicrobials in the fetal membranes …

… antimicrobial properties of the ACM using novel methods to visualize the antimicrobial efficacy
of membranes … Porcine Pericardium Collagen Membranes (PPCM) served as membrane …

… this, the immune competencies of these membranes, including operative … fetal membranes
are active secretors of diverse molecules of innate immunity, including natural antimicrobial …

… Protein expression was investigated by immunofluorescence of the cells in culture, and by
immunohistochemistry in paraffin sections of human fetal membranes from pregnancies with …