Immunity to placental malaria. IV. Placental malaria is associated with up-regulation of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in intervillous blood

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Sujittra Chaisavaneeyakorn, Julie M. Moore, Caroline Othoro, Juliana Otieno, Sansanee C. Chaiyaroj, Ya Ping Shi, Bernard L. Nahlen, Altaf A. Lal, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar
• مؤلفون آخرون: National Center for Infectious Diseases
• التنسيق: مقال
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: Medicine
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/20346

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) may play a role in immune responses to malaria during pregnancy by virtue of its ability to activate macrophages and to overcome the immunosuppressive effect of glucocorticoids. The present study investigated whether plasma MIF levels are altered in pregn...