Effects of perinatal, late foetal, and early embryonic insults on the cardiovascular phenotype in experimental animal models and humans

Vasa - European Journal of Vascular Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 439-449

  Meister, Theo Arthur ^a   Rexhaj, Emrush ^a   Rimoldi, Stefano Flavio ^a   Scherrer, Urs ^a   Sartori, Claudio ^b  

^a PSI   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ART; Cardiovascular risk; Epigenetic; Foetal programming; Preeclampsia; Vascular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR;

ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HYPOXIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LUNG EDEMA; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREECLAMPSIA; PROGENY; PROTEINURIA; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; REVIEW; VASODILATATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; ANIMAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85000950829     PISSN: 03011526     EISSN: 16642872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0301-1526/a000573     Document Type: Review

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