A potential biomarker for pregnancy-associated heart disease?

... biomarker for peripartum cardiomyopathy. Struman and colleagues found that expression of miR-146a was induced by the nursing hormone prolactin . MiR-146a expression promoted vascular damage and was increased in a mouse model of PPCM. Conversely, ...

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