Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Labour is an inflammatory process involving the innate immune system, premature activation of which, for example by infection, can lead to preterm birth before 37 weeks of gestation with profound pathophysiological consequences for the offspring. The putative antimicrobial protein HRPE773 (ZG16B) expressed in human female reproductive secretory epithelia, has been shown previously to be elevated in human endometrium during the menstrual early secretory phase and ...