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Persistence of mitochondrial toxicity in hearts of female B6C3F1 mice exposed in utero to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine.
Cardiovascular toxicology - 1 Jan 2004
Walker Dale M, Poirier Miriam C, Campen Matthew J, Cook Dennis L, Divi Rao L, Nagashima Kunio, Lund Amie K, Cossey Patsy Y, Hahn Fletcher F, Walker Vernon E
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Cardiac toxicity has been associated with HIV infection and exposure to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), but the role of the latter in the development of cardiac disease of HIV-infected patients is uncertain. To investigate the cardiotoxicity of transplacentally administered zidovudine (AZT) or AZT plus lamivudine (3TC) in the absence of HIV infection, we evaluated several biomarkers of...
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