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Gestational intermittent hyperoxia rescues murine genetic congenital heart disease in part.
Scientific reports - 23 Mar 2021
Doll Cassandra F, Pereira Natalia J, Hashimi Mustafa S, Grindrod Tabor J, Alkassis Fariz F, Cai Lawrence X, Milovanovic Una, Sandino Adriana I, Kasahara Hideko
Abstract excerpt
Cardiac development is a dynamic process, temporally and spatially. When disturbed, it leads to congenital cardiac anomalies that affect approximately 1% of live births. Genetic variants in several loci lead to anomalies, with the transcription factor NKX2-5 being one of the largest. However, there are also non-genetic factors that influence cardiac malformations. We examined the hypothesis that hyperoxia may be...
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