Purpose During normal pregnancy there is an oxido-reductive balance between action of
pro-oxidative factors. The aim of this study was to evaluate the total antioxidant status (TAS) …

OBJECTIVE: The 155 patients suffering from primary RM who took part in this study were
qualified after excluding known causes of abortions. METHODS: The presence of the …

The purpose of this study was to characterize prooxidant-antioxidant balance in patients with
different clinical types of spontaneous abortion. Sixty previously untreated, pregnant women …

Objective: This study aimed to determine the express level of tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-
α) in the decidual tissue and peripheral blood of patients with recurrent spontaneous …

The antioxidant activities of superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) and SOD2, as well as the levels
of the oxidant superoxide anion (SOA) and the micronutrients zinc (Zn), copper (Cu) and …

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of cigarette smoking on the
pro/antioxidant balance in pregnant women with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). The …

Cytokines seem to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of unexplained recurrent
pregnancy loss (RPL). Th1 cytokines have been shown to exert deleterious effects on …

Objectives. To evaluate the proportion of women with threatened miscarriage (TM) who
proceed to miscarriage in a population of single ethnicity and to investigate prospectively …

To study the possible role of the superoxide radical and its scavenging system in the
decidua of early pregnancy, superoxide dismutase (SOD) values and concentrations of lipid …

The objective of this study was to compare the concentrations of Th1 (IFN-γ, TNF-α) and Th2
(IL-4, IL-10) cytokines in the serum of normal pregnant and recurrent spontaneous abortion …