Prenatal programming - Effects on blood pressure and renal function

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 137-144

  Ritz, Eberhard ^a   Amann, Kerstin ^b   Koleganova, Nadezda ^a   Benz, Kerstin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; DNA; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MESSENGER RNA; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN BCL 2; RNA; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; WT1 PROTEIN;

ALBUMINURIA; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; NEPHRON; ORGANOGENESIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; SALT INTAKE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79952186896     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2011.1     Document Type: Review

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