Elevated Soluble CD163 in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Secretion from Human Placenta and Adipose Tissue

Muhammad Furqan Bari; Martin O. Weickert; Kavitha Sivakumar; Sean G. James; David R. J. Snead; Bee Kang Tan; Harpal Singh Randeva; Claire Cecile Bastie; Manu Vatish

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101327

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Elevated Soluble CD163 in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Secretion from Human Placenta and Adipose Tissue

Muhammad Furqan Bari,

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Dow International Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan, Divisions of Reproduction and Metabolic & Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Martin O. Weickert,

Affiliations Divisions of Reproduction and Metabolic & Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom, Departments of Pathology & Endocrinology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Kavitha Sivakumar,

Affiliation Divisions of Reproduction and Metabolic & Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Sean G. James,

Affiliation Departments of Pathology & Endocrinology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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David R. J. Snead,

Affiliation Departments of Pathology & Endocrinology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Bee Kang Tan,

Affiliation Divisions of Reproduction and Metabolic & Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Harpal Singh Randeva,

Affiliations Divisions of Reproduction and Metabolic & Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom, Departments of Pathology & Endocrinology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Claire Cecile Bastie ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire Cecile Bastie, Manu Vatish

Affiliations Divisions of Reproduction and Metabolic & Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom, Department of Medicine & Endocrinology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Manu Vatish

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire Cecile Bastie, Manu Vatish

* E-mail: manu.vatish@obs-gyn.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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Elevated Soluble CD163 in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Secretion from Human Placenta and Adipose Tissue

Muhammad Furqan Bari,
Martin O. Weickert,
Kavitha Sivakumar,
Sean G. James,
David R. J. Snead,
Bee Kang Tan,
Harpal Singh Randeva,
Claire Cecile Bastie,
Manu Vatish

Published: July 1, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101327

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