Apoptosis in human cultured trophoblasts is enhanced by hypoxia and diminished by epidermal growth factor

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Preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction are associated with placental hypoperfusion and villous hypoxia. The villous response to this environment includes diminished trophoblast differentiation and enhanced apoptosis. We tested the hypothesis that hypoxia induces apoptosis in cultured trophoblasts, and that epidermal growth factor (EGF), an enhancer of trophoblast differentiation, diminishes hypoxia-induced...

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