Reduced platelet-activating factor-acetylhydrolase activity in maternal plasma obtained from normotensive pregnant women destined to develop pregnancy-induced hypertension

Hypertension in Pregnancy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 297-306

  Ohshige, Akihiro ^a   Yoshimura, Toshihiro ^a   Matsui, Kazuo ^b   Koyama, Hideki ^a   Ito, Masaharu ^c   Okamura, Hitoshi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fukuda Hospital   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mean platelet volume; Platelet; Platelet activating factor acetylhydrolase; Pregnancy induced hypertension

Indexed keywords

1 ALKYL 2 ACETYLGLYCEROPHOSPHOCHOLINE ESTERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL PLASMA; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME;

EID: 0031765301     PISSN: 10641955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641959809009603     Document Type: Article

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