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Cellular fetal microchimerism in preeclampsia.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Dec 2013
Gammill Hilary S, Aydelotte Tessa M, Guthrie Katherine A, Nkwopara Evangelyn C, Nelson J Lee
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Previous studies have shown elevated concentrations of free fetal DNA and erythroblasts in maternal circulation in women with preeclampsia compared with those with normal pregnancy. Pluripotent and immunocompetent fetal cells also transfer to the maternal circulation during pregnancy, but whether concentrations of fetal mononuclear cells also differed in preeclampsia was unknown. We sought to quantify cellular...
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