Oxidative stress is closely related to clinical severity of pre-eclampsia

Oxidative stress is closely related to clinical severity of pre-eclampsia

Pre-eclampsia is a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy in which enzymatic antioxidant defenses fail and tissues are injured. This prospective case-control study evaluated whether pre-eclamptic women and their newborns show higher degrees of oxidative stress than normal pregnancies and sought to deter...

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Main Authors: VERÓNICA M CHAMY, JAIME LEPE, ÁLVARO CATALÁN, DAVID RETAMAL, JORGE A ESCOBAR, EVA M MADRID
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-01-01
Series:Biological Research
Subjects:
pre-eclampsia
MDA
SOD
GPx
ABTS
lipoperoxidation
antioxidants
Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602006000200005

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