Prenatal administration of retinoic acid
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Elke Ruttenstock; Takashi Doi; Jens Dingemann; Prem Puri
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract **BACKGROUND**: Pulmonary hypoplasia (PH) is the main cause of mortality in newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). Prenatal administration of retinoic acid (RA) stimulates alveologenesis in the nitrofen‐induced pulmonary hypoplasia. Insulin‐like growth factor receptors (IG