Midkine and Pleiotrophin Concentrations in Amniotic Fluid in Healthy and Complicated Pregnancies

Youn Hee Jee; Yael Lebenthal; Piya Chaemsaithong; Gai Yan; Ivana Peran; Anton Wellstein; Roberto Romero; Jeffrey Baron

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153325

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Midkine and Pleiotrophin Concentrations in Amniotic Fluid in Healthy and Complicated Pregnancies

Youn Hee Jee ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Youn Hee Jee, Yael Lebenthal

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Program on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Yael Lebenthal ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Youn Hee Jee, Yael Lebenthal

Affiliations Section on Growth and Development, Program on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Piya Chaemsaithong,

Affiliation Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
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Gai Yan,

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington DC, United States of America
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Ivana Peran,

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington DC, United States of America
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Anton Wellstein,

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington DC, United States of America
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Roberto Romero ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
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Jeffrey Baron

* E-mail: jeffrey.baron@nih.gov

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Section on Growth and Development, Program on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Midkine and Pleiotrophin Concentrations in Amniotic Fluid in Healthy and Complicated Pregnancies

Youn Hee Jee,
Yael Lebenthal,
Piya Chaemsaithong,
Gai Yan,
Ivana Peran,
Anton Wellstein,
Roberto Romero,
Jeffrey Baron

Published: April 18, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153325

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