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Full Version: Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Increases Heart Susceptibility To Ischemia, Reperfusion Injury In Adult Male But Not Female Ra
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Cocaine abuse is becoming increasingly prevalent among women of childbearing age, and is associated with numerous adverse perinatal outcomes. New research, published in The Journal of Physiology, by Professor Lubo Zhang and his research team from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California presents the exciting novel finding that cocaine exposure in utero has lasting and lifelong adverse effects on the heart in adulthood, particularly if you are male!

Posted on Fri, 13 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...111941.htm
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