Measuring hypoxia induced mRNA in maternal blood to monitor wellbeing of growth-restricted fetuses

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1028521

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Severely growth restricted fetuses are at peril of stillbirth from low oxygenation. While ultrasound monitoring improves outcomes, babies are still lost. Better ways to monitor the health the unborn baby are needed. We have recently discovered fetuses’ starved of oxygen leak RNA into mother's blood. Thus, measuring RNA molecules in blood could be used to assess fetal health. We will examine whether measuring mRNA in maternal blood could be used to monitor wellbeing of growth-restricted fetuses.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $421,358.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

fetal growth restriction | fetal hypoxia | placental insufficiency | pregnancy | pregnancy complications

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