PP13, maternal ABO blood groups and the risk assessment of pregnancy complications.

Placental Protein 13 (PP13), an early biomarker of preeclampsia, is a placenta-specific galectin that binds beta-galactosides, building-blocks of ABO blood-group antigens, possibly affecting its bioavailability in blood.We studied PP13-binding to erythrocytes, maternal blood-group effect on serum PP...

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Main Authors: Nandor Gabor Than, Roberto Romero, Hamutal Meiri, Offer Erez, Yi Xu, Federica Tarquini, Laszlo Barna, Andras Szilagyi, Ron Ackerman, Marei Sammar, Tibor Fule, Katalin Karaszi, Ilona Kovalszky, Zhong Dong, Chong Jai Kim, Peter Zavodszky, Zoltan Papp, Ron Gonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3143125?pdf=render