Compensatory Feto-Placental Upregulation of the Nitric Oxide System during Fetal Growth Restriction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Pisaneschi, Silvia ^a,d   Strigini, Francesca A L ^a   Sanchez, Angel M ^a   Begliuomini, Silvia ^a   Casarosa, Elena ^a   Ripoli, Andrea ^b   Ghirri, Paolo ^a   Boldrini, Antonio ^a   Fink, Bruno ^c   Genazzani, Andrea R ^a   Coceani, Flavio ^d   Simoncini, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c Noxygen Science Transfer and Diagnostics ^*  (Germany)

^d SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; S NITROSOHEMOGLOBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREMATURITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TWIN PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ARGININE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITRITES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84866913788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045294     Document Type: Article

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