key: cord-015391-zf3bx8i7 authors: nan title: President’s Plenary Session date: 2012-12-30 journal: Reprod Sci DOI: 10.1177/1933719112442492 sha: doc_id: 15391 cord_uid: zf3bx8i7 nan Hector Barrera-Villa Zevallos, Donna Lai, Jonathan Arthur, Cecilia Ng, Robert Markham, and Ian S Fraser. Stephen Brown, Elizabeth Bonney, Brian Nielsen, Renju Raj, and Lucia Brown. Burlington, VT, USA. Ismail Mert, and David Kmak. Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa, Roberto Romero, Nandor G Than, Edgar Hernandez-Andrade, Zeynep Alpay Savasan, Adi L Tarca, Gaurav Bhatti, Zhong Dong, and Sonia S Hassan. Detroit, MI and Detroit, MI, USA. Delrae M Eckman, Charles R Rosenfeld, Ridhima Gupta, Shelton M Charles, Heather Mertz, and Lorna G Moore. ; Winston-Salem, NC and Dallas, TX. Julia V Gefter, Carl A Hubel, and Robert W Powers. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Styliani Goulopoulou, Johanna L Hannan, and R Clinton Webb. Augusta, GA, USA and Baltimore, MD, USA. Daniel Kerage, Randi Gombos, and Denise G Hemmings. Jennifer Krupp, Derek Boeldt, FuXian Yi, Dinesh Shah, and Ian Bird. Muna Noori, Ann E Donald, Aroon D Hingorani, and David J Williams. London, United Kingdom. Concurrent Session IV PARTURITION: INFLAMMATION, INFECTION Surfactant Protein (SP)-A Attenuates LPS-Induced NF-κB Activation in a Mouse Macrophage Reporter Cell Probiotic Attenuation of Infl ammatory Responses in Amnion: A Possible Role in the Prevention of Preterm Labor? Poster Session III -Douglas Pavilion S-089 Infl ammation Provoking a Cytokine Response and Disrupting the Epithelial Barrier Is Mitigated with Dexamethasone: A Possible Mechanism of Premature Cervical Remodeling and Preterm Birth Immune Adaptations of Pregnancy as Risk Factors of Gestational UTI Appropriate for Gestational Age-Preterm Neonates Born to Mothers with Moderate, but Not Mild or Severe, Intensity of Histologic Chorioamnionitis, Funisitis, and Intraamniotic Infl ammation without Microbial Invasion of Amniotic Cavity Have a Lower Rate of RDS. Chan-Wook Park Human β Defensin -3 in Human Pregnancy: The Effect of Gestational Age, Parturition, and Intra-Amniotic Infection/Infl ammation. Manasi Patwardhan, Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa, Zeynep Alpay Savasan Chronic Pyelonephritis in Pregnancy: Intracellular Survival & Persistance of the Gestational Pathogen Differential Cytokine and Tissue Remodeling Responses in Chorion and Decidua Exposed to Ureaplasma parvum Disabled Cervical Cytokine Expression in Post-Term Women with Failed Labor Induction Infl ammation of the Fetal Skin Following Low-Grade Microbial Stimulation S-189 U6 and U2 snRNA Downregulation in Syncytiotrophoblast Tal Imbar, Ilana Ariel, and Simcha Yagel