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Nitroglycerin prevents coagulopathies and foetal death associated with abnormal maternal inflammation in rats.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 May 2012
Cotechini Tiziana, Othman Maha, Graham Charles H
Abstract excerpt
Inflammation-associated foetal loss is often linked to maternal coagulopathies. Here, we characterised the role of maternal inflammation in the development of various systemic maternal coagulopathies and foetal death during mid-to-late gestation in rats. Since nitric oxide (NO) functions as an inhibitor of platelet aggregation and anti-oxidant, we also tested whether the NO mimetic nitroglycerin (glyceryl...
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