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Article: Studies from Arizona State University have provided new information about cord blood.
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- Stem Cell Week
- Article date:
- June 8, 2009
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According to recent research from the United States, "Exposures of pregnant women to natural and manmade chemicals can lead to negative health effects in the baby, ranging from low birth weight to developmental defects. In some cases, diseases were postulated to have their basis in toxic exposure in utero or in early childhood."
"Therefore, an understanding of fetal responses to environmental exposures is essential. To that end, cord blood is a readily accessible biofluid whose proteomic makeup remains mostly unexplored when compared with that of adults. Our goal was an initial global assessment of the fetal serum proteome and for the identification of protein ...
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