Pregnancy Around the Clock

Anke Diemert; Petra Clara Arck

doi:10.1016/j.molmed.2017.11.007

Pregnancy Around the Clock

Trends Mol Med. 2018 Jan;24(1):1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2017.11.007. Epub 2017 Dec 5.

Authors

Anke Diemert¹, Petra Clara Arck²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Laboratory for Experimental Feto-Maternal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
² Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Laboratory for Experimental Feto-Maternal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: p.arck@uke.de.

PMID: 29203370
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2017.11.007

Abstract

A recent study introduced the existence of an 'immune clock' in pregnancy; during the course of gestation, peripheral blood cells from pregnant women were analyzed by mass cytometry using a single-cell signaling-based elastic net algorithm. The insights will undoubtedly promote the testing of such a clock - possibly in synergy with other pacemakers - to potentially predict pregnancy complications.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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