Antenatal Maternal Hypoxia: Criterion for Fetal Growth Restriction in Rodents

Rodents are a useful model for life science research. Accumulating evidence suggests that the offspring of mice and rats suffer from similar disorders as humans when exposed to hypoxia during pregnancy. Importantly, with antenatal hypoxic exposure, human neonates demonstrate low birth weight or grow...

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Main Authors: Amy E Jang, Lawrence D Longo, Ravi eGoyal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2015.00176/full