The Impact of Maternal Cigarette Smoke Exposure in a Rodent Model on Renal Development in the Offspring

This study aimed to investigate whether maternal cigarette smoke exposure can disrupt fetal kidney development by changing the expression of growth and transcription factors essential for renal development, and thereafter predispose the offspring to chronic kidney disease later in life. Female Balb/...

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Main Authors: Al-Odat, Ibrahim, Chen, Hui, Chan, Yik Lung, Amgad, Sawiris, Wong, Muh Geot, Gill, Anthony, Pollock, Carol, Saad, Sonia
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110029/