Descriptive study with an analytic component, on pregnant women that went for consultation to Maternidade Daniel de Matos (Coimbra, Portugal) during the second week of July 1997. 80 women were randomly selected and asked to answer a questionnaire, concerning level of knowledge towards oral health as well as dietary and oral hygiene habits before and during pregnancy. It was also quantified the dental plaque ind...
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine the distribution of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in the human placenta at different gestational ages and to determine whether differences in ET-1 immunoreactivity occurred in preeclamptic compared with uncomplicated pregnancies. METHODS: Localization of ET-1 was investigated by the immunoperoxidase technique in first-trimester, second-trimester, and term human placentas fr...
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