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Local Researcher Earns Gates Grant to Study Preeclampsia

Friday, April 29, 2011 10:06 Comments Off

Mahua Choudhury, a neonatology research fellow at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, was recently granted $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study preeclampsia, a condition that is a major cause of  preterm birth and maternal death.  Choudhury’s project, “A Sensitive Epigenic Tool for Prediction of Preeclampsia” was one of 88 [...]

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New Evidence Preeclampsia May be an Autoimmune Disorder

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:56 2 Comments

According to new research published in Nature Medicine, preeclampsia may be an autoimmune condition. Investigators were able to induce the symptoms of preeclampsia in mice by injecting them with autoantibodies obtained from women with preeclampsia. The most exciting thing about this research is that symptoms were prevented when

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Preeclampsia Impacts Fetal Heart

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 22:21 Comments Off

Yesterday, we heard about a study which showed that exercise during pregnancy was good for the fetal cardiovascular system.  Today, we hear evidence that preeclampsia causes damage to the fetal heart.  A study which was presented today at the Society for Endocrinology meeting, found that when preeclampsia reduces the amount of oxygen a fetus receives [...]

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