Despite much interest in the mechanisms regulating fetal-maternal interactions, information on leukocyte populations and major cytokines present in uterus and placenta remains fragmentary. This report presents a detailed and quantitative study of leukocyte populations at the mouse fetal-maternal interface, including a comparison between pregnancies from syngeneic and allogeneic crosses. Our res...

In respect to the main goal of our ongoing work for predicting preterm birth, we analyze in this paper uterine EMG recordings of 11 pregnant and laboring women by means of Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA), a scaling analysis method that quantifies a simple parameter to represent the correlation properties of a time series. Our study provides convincing evidence that pregnancy progress is ty...