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Preeclampsia Study Links Disorder to Autoimmune Enzyme
According to Business Week, a new research study found that women who develop preeclampsia might have an overabundance of a gene that helps regulate the body’s immune system. The study’s findings hope to improve screening and prenatal care of patients at risk and their unborn. The North Carolina State University researchers focused on preeclampsia as an autoimmune disorder, where the mother’s body regards the placenta as an unknown invader. The researchers compared genetic analyses of placenta from women with preeclampsia to women with normal pregnancies. The study found placentas from preeclampsia patients had genes associated with a particular autoimmune pathway, and there was more genes present than in women with normal placentas. A particular enzyme involved in sialic acid modification was upregulated, meaning there was more of it present, which causes disruption in the body’s ability to identify invaders from non-invaders. Such a regulation disruption results in the body attacking…
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New Medical Advances to Fight Preeclampsia
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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Birth defects tied to over-weight mothers
Women who are overweight or obese have higher odds of having complications during pregnancy. Those complications could include hypertension (high blood pressure), preeclampsia and eclampsia or gestational diabetes. Each of these conditions may require medication and treatment and put the health of not only mothers, but their babies at risk. The increased risks to babies include being obese in childhood, being born prematurely or having certain birth defects or birth trauma including neural tube birth defects like spina bifida. RoboDoc download Managing weight is never easy and the many changes that come along with pregnancy can make it even tougher. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed dvd The best way to reduce risks is to achieve a healthy weight before becoming pregnant. During pregnancy, women who are in a normal weight range need only 300 additional calories daily to support a baby’s growth. Women who are obese may need less and women…
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