Association between calcifying nanoparticles and placental calcification

International Journal of Nanomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 1679-1686

  Guo, Yanan ^a   Zhang, Dechun ^a   Lu, He ^a   Luo, Shuang ^b   Shen, Xuecheng ^c  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Calcifying nanoparticles; Nanobacteria; Placental calcification

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE; NANOPARTICLE; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHORION VILLUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA CALCIFICATION; PLACENTA DISORDER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; CALCIFYING NANOPARTICLES; CALCINOSIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA; DURAPATITE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARTICLE SIZE; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84866370329     PISSN: 11769114     EISSN: 11782013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/IJN.S29786     Document Type: Article

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