Down-regulation of the transcription factor snail in the placentas of patients with preeclampsia and in a rat model of preeclampsia

• Main Authors: Fedorova Larisa (Author), Gatto-Weis Cara (Author), Smaili Sleiman (Author), Khurshid Nauman (Author), Shapiro Joseph I (Author), Malhotra Deepak (Author), Horrigan Terrence (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Placental malfunction in preeclampsia is believed to be a consequence of aberrant differentiation of trophoblast lineages and changes in utero-placental oxygenation. The transcription factor Snail, a master regulator molecule of epit...