High-altitude hypoxia and preeclampsia

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2967-2977

  Zamudio, Stacy ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth factors; Hypoxemia; Oxidative stress; Pregnancy; Review; Uteroplacental blood flow; Vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 34347262653     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/2286     Document Type: Review

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