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Fetal sepsis in utero induces disruption of gene networks involved in cardiac morphogenesis in a nonhuman primate model of infection-induced preterm labor

ABSTRACT: Fetal lung and brain injury have been linked with intrauterine exposure to amniotic fluid (AF) cytokines, but injury to other fetal organs are not well characterized. Fetal cardiac injury was suspected based on an ultrasound study suggesting diastolic dysfunction, but not previously confirmed or characterized. In this study we explore the relationship between cytokine exposure due to exposure to group B streptococcus and cardiac gene expression.

ORGANISM(S): Macaca fascicularis Macaca nemestrina Macaca mulatta

PROVIDER: GSE98459 | GEO | 2018/01/23

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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