Roberto Romero

Transfer of PAMAM dendrimers across human placenta: prospects of its use as drug carrier during pregnancy.

Evidence against a link between hyperemesis gravidarum and personality characteristics from an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women: a pilot study.

Increased expression of matrix metalloproteinase-1 in systemic vessels of preeclamptic women: a critical mediator of vascular dysfunction.

Clinical significance of oligohydramnios in patients with preterm labor and intact membranes.

Nifedipine in the management of preterm labor: a systematic review and metaanalysis.

A molecular signature of an arrest of descent in human parturition.

Improved detection of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oscillations within human neutrophils.

Chronic chorioamnionitis displays distinct alterations of the amniotic fluid proteome.

Epistasis between COMT and MTHFR in maternal-fetal dyads increases risk for preeclampsia.

A signature of maternal anti-fetal rejection in spontaneous preterm birth: chronic chorioamnionitis, anti-human leukocyte antigen antibodies, and C4d.

Protein profiling underscores immunological functions of uterine cervical mucus plug in human pregnancy.

Placental bed disorders in preterm labor, preterm PROM, spontaneous abortion and abruptio placentae.

The frequency of meconium-stained amniotic fluid increases as a function of the duration of labor.

Recurrence risk of hyperemesis gravidarum.

Listeriosis in human pregnancy: a systematic review.

Supplementation with vitamins C and E during pregnancy for the prevention of preeclampsia and other adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes: a systematic review and metaanalysis.

Fetal cardiac ventricular volume, cardiac output, and ejection fraction determined with 4-dimensional ultrasound using spatiotemporal image correlation and virtual organ computer-aided analysis.

Fetal ERAP2 variation is associated with preeclampsia in African Americans in a case-control study.

Varicella-zoster virus (chickenpox) infection in pregnancy.

Placental protein 13 (PP13/galectin-13) undergoes lipid raft-associated subcellular redistribution in the syncytiotrophoblast in preterm preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome.

Injectable PAMAM dendrimer-PEG hydrogels for the treatment of genital infections: formulation and in vitro and in vivo evaluation.

Posttraumatic stress symptoms following pregnancy complicated by hyperemesis gravidarum.

Inflammatory gene regulatory networks in amnion cells following cytokine stimulation: translational systems approach to modeling human parturition.

Varying coefficient model for gene-environment interaction: a non-linear look.

Interleukin-19 in fetal systemic inflammation.

Magnitude of [(11)C]PK11195 binding is related to severity of motor deficits in a rabbit model of cerebral palsy induced by intrauterine endotoxin exposure.

PP13, maternal ABO blood groups and the risk assessment of pregnancy complications.

The role of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in the neutrophilia observed in the fetal inflammatory response syndrome.

miR-210 targets iron-sulfur cluster scaffold homologue in human trophoblast cell lines: siderosis of interstitial trophoblasts as a novel pathology of preterm preeclampsia and small-for-gestational-age pregnancies.

Complement activation triggers metalloproteinases release inducing cervical remodeling and preterm birth in mice.

Maternal plasma concentrations of angiogenic/anti-angiogenic factors are of prognostic value in patients presenting to the obstetrical triage area with the suspicion of preeclampsia.

Placental lesions associated with maternal underperfusion are more frequent in early-onset than in late-onset preeclampsia.

Late-onset preeclampsia is associated with an imbalance of angiogenic and anti-angiogenic factors in patients with and without placental lesions consistent with maternal underperfusion.

Vaginal progesterone to reduce the rate of preterm birth and neonatal morbidity: a solution at last.

miR-143 regulation of prostaglandin-endoperoxidase synthase 2 in the amnion: implications for human parturition at term.

Risk factors, treatments, and outcomes associated with prolonged hyperemesis gravidarum.

An enzymatic colorimetric assay for glucose-6-phosphate.

Spontaneous abortion and preterm labor and delivery in nonhuman primates: evidence from a captive colony of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Maternal HLA panel-reactive antibodies in early gestation positively correlate with chronic chorioamnionitis: evidence in support of the chronic nature of maternal anti-fetal rejection.

Hematologic profile of the fetus with systemic inflammatory response syndrome.

Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) in preterm labor with intact membranes and preterm PROM: a study of the alarmin HMGB1.

Blood pH and gases in fetuses in preterm labor with and without systemic inflammatory response syndrome.

The frequency and clinical significance of intra-amniotic inflammation in women with preterm uterine contractility but without cervical change: do the diagnostic criteria for preterm labor need to be changed?

Change in paternity and recurrence of hyperemesis gravidarum.

Silencing, positive selection and parallel evolution: busy history of primate cytochromes C.

Galectins: guardians of eutherian pregnancy at the maternal-fetal interface.

The evolution of menstruation: a new model for genetic assimilation: explaining molecular origins of maternal responses to fetal invasiveness.

Treatment of abnormal vaginal flora in early pregnancy with clindamycin for the prevention of spontaneous preterm birth: a systematic review and metaanalysis.

Cervical remodeling/ripening at term and preterm delivery: the same mechanism initiated by different mediators and different effector cells.

Peripheral CD300a+CD8+ T lymphocytes with a distinct cytotoxic molecular signature increase in pregnant women with chronic chorioamnionitis.

A celebration of Steven Gabbe's contributions and accomplishments: Associate Editor, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1990 through 2010.

Unexplained fetal death has a biological signature of maternal anti-fetal rejection: chronic chorioamnionitis and alloimmune anti-human leucocyte antigen antibodies.

Glycogen phosphorylase isoenzyme BB plasma concentration is elevated in pregnancy and preterm preeclampsia.

Transabdominal evaluation of uterine cervical length during pregnancy fails to identify a substantial number of women with a short cervix.

The clinical significance of a positive Amnisure test in women with preterm labor and intact membranes.

Vaginal progesterone in women with an asymptomatic sonographic short cervix in the midtrimester decreases preterm delivery and neonatal morbidity: a systematic review and metaanalysis of individual patient data.

A dendrimer-based immunosensor for improved capture and detection of tumor necrosis factor-α cytokine.

Methylome of fetal and maternal monocytes and macrophages at the feto-maternal interface.

High frequency of Helicobacter pylori in the esophageal mucosa of dyspeptic patients and its possible association with histopathological alterations.

California Very Preterm Birth Study: design and characteristics of the population- and biospecimen bank-based nested case-control study.

The relationship of newborn adiposity to fetal growth outcome based on birth weight or the modified neonatal growth assessment score.

Postnatal development- and age-related changes in DNA-methylation patterns in the human genome.

Dendrimer-based postnatal therapy for neuroinflammation and cerebral palsy in a rabbit model.

Viral invasion of the amniotic cavity (VIAC) in the midtrimester of pregnancy.

The new American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 5 years later: looking back and moving forward.

Elephant transcriptome provides insights into the evolution of eutherian placentation.

Ethnic differences in the accumulation of fat and lean mass in late gestation.

Clinical chorioamnionitis is characterized by changes in the expression of the alarmin HMGB1 and one of its receptors, sRAGE.

Alterations in maternal-fetal cellular trafficking after fetal surgery.

Down-weighting overlapping genes improves gene set analysis.

Midtrimester amniotic fluid concentrations of interleukin-6 and interferon-gamma-inducible protein-10: evidence for heterogeneity of intra-amniotic inflammation and associations with spontaneous early (<32 weeks) and late (>32 weeks) preterm delivery.

An evolutionary test of the isoform switching hypothesis of functional progesterone withdrawal for parturition: humans have a weaker repressive effect of PR-A than mice.

Preeclampsia is associated with alterations in DNA methylation of genes involved in collagen metabolism.

Transient hypothyroidism at 3-year follow-up among cases of congenital hypothyroidism detected by newborn screening.

Increased protein-coding mutations in the mitochondrial genome of African American women with preeclampsia.

[Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection by PCR in gastric juice and gastroesophageal biopsies from dyspeptic patients].

The maternal HLA-G 1597ΔC null mutation is associated with increased risk of pre-eclampsia and reduced HLA-G expression during pregnancy in African-American women.

Systemic inflammatory stimulation by microparticles derived from hypoxic trophoblast as a model for inflammatory response in preeclampsia.

Interleukin-33 in the Human Placenta.

Performance metrics after changes in screening protocol for congenital hypothyroidism.

Vaginal progesterone vs. cervical cerclage for the prevention of preterm birth in women with a sonographic short cervix, previous preterm birth, and singleton gestation: a systematic review and indirect comparison metaanalysis.

Screening for congenital hypothyroidism in newborns transferred to neonatal intensive care.

The fetal cardiovascular response to increased placental vascular impedance to flow determined with 4-dimensional ultrasound using spatiotemporal image correlation and virtual organ computer-aided analysis.

Are infants born by elective cesarean delivery without labor at risk for developing immune disorders later in life?

Fetal programming and environmental exposures: implications for prenatal care and preterm birth.

Endoglin in amniotic fluid as a risk factor for the subsequent development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Comparison of the mechanisms responsible for cervical remodeling in preterm and term labor.

A blueprint for the prevention of preterm birth: vaginal progesterone in women with a short cervix.

Maternal plasma concentrations of angiogenic/antiangiogenic factors in the third trimester of pregnancy to identify the patient at risk for stillbirth at or near term and severe late preeclampsia.

Evidence of an imbalance of angiogenic/antiangiogenic factors in massive perivillous fibrin deposition (maternal floor infarction): a placental lesion associated with recurrent miscarriage and fetal death.

Evidence for a role for the adaptive immune response in human term parturition.

Cross-hemispheric functional connectivity in the human fetal brain.

Soluble TRAIL in normal pregnancy and acute pyelonephritis: a potential explanation for the susceptibility of pregnant women to microbial products and infection.

Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy: new insights into its pathogenesis.

Maternal plasma concentrations of sST2 and angiogenic/anti-angiogenic factors in preeclampsia.

Soluble ST2 in the fetal inflammatory response syndrome: in vivo evidence of activation of the anti-inflammatory limb of the immune response.

Misoprostol to reduce intraoperative and postoperative hemorrhage during cesarean delivery: a systematic review and metaanalysis.

Progesterone is not the same as 17α-hydroxyprogesterone caproate: implications for obstetrical practice.

Prolactin receptor gene polymorphisms are associated with gestational diabetes.

Plasma concentrations of angiogenic/anti-angiogenic factors have prognostic value in women presenting with suspected preeclampsia to the obstetrical triage area: a prospective study.

Maternal plasma soluble TRAIL is decreased in preeclampsia.

Soluble ST2, a modulator of the inflammatory response, in preterm and term labor.

Antihistamines and other prognostic factors for adverse outcome in hyperemesis gravidarum.

Viral infection of the pregnant cervix predisposes to ascending bacterial infection.

Infection and smoking are associated with decreased plasma concentration of the anti-aging protein, α-klotho.

Fetal production of growth factors and inflammatory mediators predicts pulmonary hypertension in congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Differences and similarities in the transcriptional profile of peripheral whole blood in early and late-onset preeclampsia: insights into the molecular basis of the phenotype of preeclampsiaa.

Changes of placental syndecan-1 expression in preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome.

The anti-aging factor α-klotho during human pregnancy and its expression in pregnancies complicated by small-for-gestational-age neonates and/or preeclampsia.

Detection of anti-HLA antibodies in maternal blood in the second trimester to identify patients at risk of antibody-mediated maternal anti-fetal rejection and spontaneous preterm delivery.

Transdermal nitroglycerin for the treatment of preterm labor: a systematic review and metaanalysis.

Characterization of the myometrial transcriptome in women with an arrest of dilatation during labor.

Characterization of the fetal blood transcriptome and proteome in maternal anti-fetal rejection: evidence of a distinct and novel type of human fetal systemic inflammatory response.

Maternal floor infarction/massive perivillous fibrin deposition: a manifestation of maternal antifetal rejection?

Preeclampsia: a link between trophoblast dysregulation and an antiangiogenic state.

Analysis and correction of crosstalk effects in pathway analysis.

Individualized fetal growth assessment: critical evaluation of key concepts in the specification of third trimester size trajectories.

Strengths and limitations of microarray-based phenotype prediction: lessons learned from the IMPROVER Diagnostic Signature Challenge.

Maternal endotoxin exposure results in abnormal neuronal architecture in the newborn rabbit.

Fetal Intelligent Navigation Echocardiography (FINE): a novel method for rapid, simple, and automatic examination of the fetal heart.

Bacteria and endotoxin in meconium-stained amniotic fluid at term: could intra-amniotic infection cause meconium passage?

The diagnostic performance of the Mass Restricted (MR) score in the identification of microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity or intra-amniotic inflammation is not superior to amniotic fluid interleukin-6.

Concurrent quantification of tryptophan and its major metabolites.

A Novel ERAP2 Haplotype Structure in a Chilean Population: Implications for ERAP2 Protein Expression and Preeclampsia Risk.

Secreted phospholipase A2 is increased in meconium-stained amniotic fluid of term gestations: potential implications for the genesis of meconium aspiration syndrome.

Mirror artifacts in obstetric ultrasound: case presentation of a ghost twin during the second-trimester ultrasound scan.

Biodistribution of fluorescently labeled PAMAM dendrimers in neonatal rabbits: effect of neuroinflammation.

Transcriptome interrogation of human myometrium identifies differentially expressed sense-antisense pairs of protein-coding and long non-coding RNA genes in spontaneous labor at term.

A comparison of gene set analysis methods in terms of sensitivity, prioritization and specificity.

The cervical mucus plug inhibits, but does not block, the passage of ascending bacteria from the vagina during pregnancy.

The peripheral whole-blood transcriptome of acute pyelonephritis in human pregnancya.

Progesterone to prevent spontaneous preterm birth.

Umbilical cord serum interleukin-6, C-reactive protein, and myeloperoxidase concentrations at birth and association with neonatal morbidities and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes.

Evaluation of utero-placental and fetal hemodynamic parameters throughout gestation in pregnant mice using high-frequency ultrasound.

Cervical strain determined by ultrasound elastography and its association with spontaneous preterm delivery.

In appreciation of the leadership and stewardship of Drs Thomas J. Garite and Moon H. Kim.

A role for sleep disorders in pregnancy complications: challenges and opportunities.

A novel molecular microbiologic technique for the rapid diagnosis of microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity and intra-amniotic infection in preterm labor with intact membranes.

Evidence for independent evolution of functional progesterone withdrawal in primates and guinea pigs.

The composition and stability of the vaginal microbiota of normal pregnant women is different from that of non-pregnant women.

New insights into the relationship between viral infection and pregnancy complications.

Correction: The composition and stability of the vaginal microbiota of normal pregnant women is different from that of non-pregnant women.

Measuring venous blood oxygenation in fetal brain using susceptibility-weighted imaging.

Intrinsic functional brain architecture derived from graph theoretical analysis in the human fetus.

Prenatal diagnosis of a placental infarction hematoma associated with fetal growth restriction, preeclampsia and fetal death: clinicopathological correlation.

Quantitative T2 changes and susceptibility-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in murine pregnancy.

Apoptosis of alcohol-exposed human placental cytotrophoblast cells is downstream of intracellular calcium signaling.

Entropy-based selection for maternal-fetal genotype incompatibility with application to preterm prelabor rupture of membranes.

Fetal growth cessation in late pregnancy: its impact on predicted size parameters used to classify small for gestational age neonates.

The vaginal microbiota of pregnant women who subsequently have spontaneous preterm labor and delivery and those with a normal delivery at term.

MR venography of the fetal brain using susceptibility weighted imaging.

A modified prenatal growth assessment score for the evaluation of fetal growth in the third trimester using single and composite biometric parameters.

Trophoblast induces monocyte differentiation into CD14+/CD16+ macrophages.

Pre-eclampsia part 2: prediction, prevention and management.

Pre-eclampsia part 1: current understanding of its pathophysiology.

Heterogeneity of cag genotypes of Helicobacter pylori in the esophageal mucosa of dyspeptic patients and its relation to histopathological outcomes.

The evolution of embryo implantation.

Effect of depth on shear-wave elastography estimated in the internal and external cervical os during pregnancy.

Eicosanomic profiling reveals dominance of the epoxygenase pathway in human amniotic fluid at term in spontaneous labor.

Presence of an umbilical artery notch in monochorionic/monoamniotic twins.

Predicting protein phosphorylation from gene expression: top methods from the IMPROVER Species Translation Challenge.

Prediction of preterm birth in twin gestations using biophysical and biochemical tests.

Prevalence and clinical significance of sterile intra-amniotic inflammation in patients with preterm labor and intact membranes.

Maternal plasma fetuin-A concentration is lower in patients who subsequently developed preterm preeclampsia than in uncomplicated pregnancy: a longitudinal study.

Sterile intra-amniotic inflammation in asymptomatic patients with a sonographic short cervix: prevalence and clinical significance.

Preterm labor: one syndrome, many causes.

Inter-species pathway perturbation prediction via data-driven detection of functional homology.

Variety is the spice of life: new features in AJOG.

A point of care test for the determination of amniotic fluid interleukin-6 and the chemokine CXCL-10/IP-10.

Placental lesions associated with acute atherosis.

The relationship between the intensity of intra-amniotic inflammation and the presence and severity of acute histologic chorioamnionitis in preterm gestation.

Sterile and microbial-associated intra-amniotic inflammation in preterm prelabor rupture of membranes.

Placental Protein 13 (PP13) - A Placental Immunoregulatory Galectin Protecting Pregnancy.

A "multi-hit" model of neonatal white matter injury: cumulative contributions of chronic placental inflammation, acute fetal inflammation and postnatal inflammatory events.

Endocan, a putative endothelial cell marker, is elevated in preeclampsia, decreased in acute pyelonephritis, and unchanged in other obstetrical syndromes.

Age-related increases in long-range connectivity in fetal functional neural connectivity networks in utero.

The frequency of acute atherosis in normal pregnancy and preterm labor, preeclampsia, small-for-gestational age, fetal death and midtrimester spontaneous abortion.

MR imaging of the fetal brain at 1.5T and 3.0T field strengths: comparing specific absorption rate (SAR) and image quality.

A transcervical amniotic fluid collector: a new medical device for the assessment of amniotic fluid in patients with ruptured membranes.

In vivo experiments reveal the good, the bad and the ugly faces of sFlt-1 in pregnancy.

The CROWN initiative: journal editors invite researchers to develop core outcomes in women's health.

Modeling of degradation kinetic and toxicity evaluation of herbicides mixtures in water using the UV/H2O2 process.

Personalized third-trimester fetal growth evaluation: comparisons of individualized growth assessment, percentile line and conditional probability methods.

Activation of Villous Trophoblastic p38 and ERK1/2 Signaling Pathways in Preterm Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome.

Dynamic Changes in the Myometrium during the Third Stage of Labor, Evaluated Using Two-Dimensional Ultrasound, in Women with Normal and Abnormal Third Stage of Labor and in Women with Obstetric Complications.

Identification of a gene in Mycoplasma hominis associated with preterm birth and microbial burden in intraamniotic infection.

Clinical chorioamnionitis at term I: microbiology of the amniotic cavity using cultivation and molecular techniques.

Umbilical cord prostaglandins in term and preterm parturition.

A rapid interleukin-6 bedside test for the identification of intra-amniotic inflammation in preterm labor with intact membranes.

A point of care test for interleukin-6 in amniotic fluid in preterm prelabor rupture of membranes: a step toward the early treatment of acute intra-amniotic inflammation/infection.

Strain at the internal cervical os assessed with quasi-static elastography is associated with the risk of spontaneous preterm delivery at ≤34 weeks of gestation.

[54-OR]: When is maternal plasma sST2 concentration elevated in patients with preeclampsia?

[80-OR]: Increased protein network connectivity in preeclampsia.

[90-OR]: Novel biomarkers for early preeclampsia derived from the use of a new proteomic method.

Transcriptomics of maternal and fetal membranes can discriminate between gestational-age matched preterm neonates with and without cognitive impairment diagnosed at 18-24 months.

An imbalance between innate and adaptive immune cells at the maternal-fetal interface occurs prior to endotoxin-induced preterm birth.

Full-Length Human Placental sFlt-1-e15a Isoform Induces Distinct Maternal Phenotypes of Preeclampsia in Mice.

Pravastatin to prevent recurrent fetal death in massive perivillous fibrin deposition of the placenta (MPFD).

Clinical chorioamnionitis at term III: how well do clinical criteria perform in the identification of proven intra-amniotic infection?

Clinical chorioamnionitis at term II: the intra-amniotic inflammatory response.