Short- and long-term adverse effects of cocaine abuse during pregnancy on the heart development

Kurt D. Meyer, Lubo Zhang

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    Original languageAmerican English
    Pages (from-to)7-16
    Number of pages10
    JournalTherapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease
    Volume3
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Feb 2009

    ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

    • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
    • Pharmacology (medical)

    Keywords

    • Cocaine
    • Fetal
    • Programming
    • Cocaine-Related Disorders/complications
    • Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
    • Heart/growth & development
    • Ventricular Function, Left
    • Humans
    • Risk Factors
    • Rats
    • Male
    • Pregnancy
    • DNA Methylation
    • Animals
    • Time Factors
    • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
    • Myocardium/pathology
    • Pregnancy Complications/genetics
    • Female
    • Heart Diseases/etiology
    • Fetal Heart/growth & development
    • Apoptosis
    • Disease Models, Animal

    Disciplines

    • Medicine and Health Sciences
    • Cardiovascular System

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