Emmanuel Amabebe

ORCID: 0000-0002-3924-5270 · 4 papers in corpus · active 2022-2026
2026
The Pathophysiology of Spontaneous Preterm Birth: Emerging Mechanisms Reviewed by the Preterm Birth International Collaborative.
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-026-02108-5

Around 10% of global births are preterm (before 37 weeks of gestation), posing a significant challenge to maternal and neonatal health. Preterm infants face an increased risk of mortality and long-term health complications, impacting their …

2023
Impact of vitamin B12 on the reproductive health of women with sickle cell disease: a narrative review.
Reproduction & fertility ·doi:10.1530/raf-23-0015

Sickle cell disease (SCD) poses an increased risk of infertility, pregnancy complications and maternal and perinatal mortality among women of reproductive age. This risk is particularly higher for women in sub-Saharan Africa, where the dise…

2022
Matrix metalloproteinase-induced cervical extracellular matrix remodelling in pregnancy and cervical cancer.
Reproduction & fertility ·doi:10.1530/raf-22-0015

AbstractThe phenomenal extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling of the cervix that precedes the myometrial contraction of labour at term or preterm appears to share some common mechanisms with the occurrence, growth, invasion and metastasis o…

2022
Ureaplasma parvum infection induces inflammatory changes in vaginal epithelial cells independent of sialidase
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2041882/v1

Abstract Background Ureaplasma, a subspecies of genital Mycoplasma is one of the most common microbes isolated from women with infection/inflammation-associated preterm labor (PTL). Mycoplasma spp. produce sialidase that cleaves sialic ac…