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Ovine uterine space restriction alters placental transferrin receptor and fetal iron status during late pregnancy

BACKGROUND: Fetal growth restriction is reported to be associated with impaired placental iron transport. Transferrin receptor (TfR) is a major placental iron transporter in humans, but is unstudied in sheep. TfR is regulated by both iron and nitric oxide (NO), the molecule produced by endothelial N...

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Autores principales: Sun, Mary Y., Habeck, Jason M., Meyer, Katie M., Koch, Jill M., Ramadoss, Jayanth, Blohowiak, Sharon E., Magness, Ronald R., Kling, Pamela J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23202722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/pr.2012.180