Short- and long-term adverse effects of cocaine abuse during pregnancy on the heart development

Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-16

  Meyer, Kurt D ^a   Zhang, Lubo ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Fetal; Programming

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; COCAINE; PROTEIN KINASE C EPSILON;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67049157758     PISSN: 17539447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753944708099877     Document Type: Review

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