Dysregulation of angiopoietins is associated with placental malaria and low birth weight

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Silver, Karlee L ^a   Zhong, Kathleen ^a   Leke, Rose G F ^b   Taylor, Diane Wallace ^c,d   Kain, Kevin C ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOPOIETIN 2; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOTHER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITEMIA; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL MALARIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK; SERUM; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

MUS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANGIOPOIETIN-1; ANGIOPOIETIN-2; ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC;

EID: 77949704259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009481     Document Type: Article

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