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Scientists are prepared to develop a potential lab test in order to diagnose the pregnancy complication known as preeclampsia. Preeclampsia often leads to premature delivery and can be fatal to both mother and baby. Researchers at Brown University and Women and Infants Hospital have also created a well defined animal model of preeclampsia. Study representatives report that the modal is the first pregnancy specific animal model and the predictive assay is the first where the researchers are able to go back to the first trimester to predict problems. Based upon research that has shown to link the immune system secretion IL-10 with a successful pregnancy, researchers began experimenting with mice genetically engineered to lack IL-10. The hypothesis was that if they isolated blood serum from human patients with preeclampsia and gave a dose of it to the mice that the mice would develop symptoms of preeclampsia. The significance of having…
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