Implication of umbilical cord in preeclampsia

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 124-128

  Salama, Ragaa H M ^a   Fathalla, Mohamed M F ^a   Mekki, Abdel Raheim M ^a   Elsadek, Bakheet El Kot M ^b  

^a Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b Al Azhar University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Placenta; Preeclampsia; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PLATELET DERIVED ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; HUMAN; MATERNAL BLOOD; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREECLAMPSIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UMBILICAL CORD; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; UMBILICAL CORD; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1;

EID: 79251497715     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321212     Document Type: Article

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