Crossing mice deficient in eNOS with placental-specific Igf2 knockout mice: A new model of fetal growth restriction

Placenta

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1052-1054

  Dilworth, M R ^a   Kusinski, L C ^a   Baker, B C ^a   Renshall, L J ^a   Baker, P N ^b   Greenwood, S L ^a   Wareing, M ^a   Sibley, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

FGR; Igf2; IUGR; Mouse; Placenta; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; GENOTYPE; GROWTH REGULATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM A; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL WEIGHT; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84869506447     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: 15323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2012.09.012     Document Type: Article

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