Low birth weight infants and the developmental programming of hypertension: A focus on vascular factors

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 188-192

  Ligi, Isabelle ^a,b,c   Grandvuillemin, Isabelle ^a,b,c   Andres, Virginie ^a   Dignat George, Françoise ^a,b,c   Simeoni, Umberto ^a,b,c  

^a HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Developmental programming; Hypertension; Low birth weight infants; Vascular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; BLOOD VESSEL; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIAL MICROPARTICLE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BLOOD VESSELS; ELASTICITY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROCIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; STEM CELLS; VASODILATION;

EID: 77953112713     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2010.02.002     Document Type: Review

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