Intraperitoneal Administration of Shiga Toxin Type 2 in Rats in the Late Stage of Pregnancy Produces Premature Delivery of Dead Fetuses

Placenta

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 491-496

  Burdet, J ^a   Zotta, E ^a   Franchi, A M ^b   Ibarra, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Centre de Estudios Farmacologicos y Botanicos   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome; Pregnancy; Preterm labor; Stx2 infection

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; LETHALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SURVIVAL TIME;

ABORTED FETUS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SHIGA TOXIN 2; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UTERUS;

EID: 67349275734     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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