Premature labor: a state of platelet activation?
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in jpme
- Vol. 36 (5) , 377-387
- https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm.2008.082
Abstract
Objective: This study was undertaken to determine whether premature labor is associated with changes in the maternal plasma concentration of soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L), a marker of platelet activation.Keywords
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