Journal
EXPERT REVIEW OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 617-629Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.2015.1025757
Keywords
animal model; early-onset/late-onset; etiology; placenta; preeclampsia; screening
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The past decade saw the advent of a number of promising biomarkers to detect pregnancies at risk for preeclampsia (PE), the foremost being those associated with an imbalance of angiogenic factors. In late pregnancy, these are useful for the detection of imminent cases of PE, while earlier they were more predictive for early-than late-onset PE. This suggests that there may be fundamental differences between the underlying pathology of these two PE forms. Therefore, it is possible that such a biological premise may limit the development of biomarkers that will permit the efficacious detection of both early-and late-onset PE via an analysis of first-trimester maternal blood samples. Consequently, a significant increase in our understanding of the underlying pathology of PE, using a variety of approaches ranging from systems biology to animal models, will be necessary in order to overcome this obstacle.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available