... Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy & Life Science, Tokyo, Japan;2Yoneyama MaternityHospital, Tokyo, JapanPreviously, we demonstrated apoptotic cell death in the chorion ... thesecytokines in apoptosis may already be complete at the time the fetal membrane tissues were prepared, or that the role of these cytokines may be connected indirectly with the progression of ... expression of inflammatory cytokine genemRNAs increased during incubation, but was not altered by glucocorticoid. These apparently inconsistent resultscould be explained by assuming that the role of thesecytokines...