Modeling preeclampsia: The true model for the uniquely human disease preeclampsia is the human female not the pregnant rat

Hypertension

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Nama, Vivek ^a   Antonios, Tarek F ^a   Manyonda, Isaac T ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS; ANIMAL; NOTE; PREGNANCY; RAT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RATS;

EID: 34047201230     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000259962.47982.2a     Document Type: Letter

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