Background: The aim of this study was to use serum levels of IL-6, IL-8, IL-1β, TNF-α, CD40L and HSCRP as an in vitro inflammatory stimulus in order to profile the inflammatory response of whole blood from pregnant women with preeclampsia and severe preeclampsia, and to determine whether this functional response fits with imbalance.
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