title: Identification of messenger RNA of fetoplacental source in maternal plasma of women with normal pregnancies and pregnancies with intrauterine growth restriction.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to quantify placenta-specific RNA in plasma of women carrying foetuses with intrauterine growth restriction and pregnant women with normal pregnancies.
  
  
  METHODS
  8 pregnant women with foetuses with intrauterine growth restriction were studied as well as 18 women with uncomplicated pregnancies in the third pregnancy trimester. Total free RNA was quantified in maternal plasma by spectrophotometry and the gene expression of hPL (Human Placental Lactogen) at the messenger RNA level through technical Real Time-Chain Reaction Polymerase.
  
  
  RESULTS
  plasma RNA of fetoplacental origin was successfully detected in 100% of pregnant women. There were no statistically significant differences between the values of total RNA extracted from plasma (p= 0.5975) nor in the messenger RNA expression of hPL gene (p= 0.5785) between cases and controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  messenger RNA of fetoplacental origin can be detected in maternal plasma during pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Genética Humana, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. E-mail: rgarcia@javeriana.edu.co.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ayala Ramírez
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Genética Humana, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. E-mail: rgarcia@javeriana.edu.co.
authors.forename: Reggie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: García Robles
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Pontificia Universidad Javeriana-Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. And Gynecologist physician. Unit of Feto-maternal MedicineSS.E-mail: jdiegorojas@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Juan Diego
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Rojas
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Genética Humana, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. E-mail: rgarcia@javeriana.edu.co.
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bermúdez
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Genética Humana, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. E-mail: rgarcia@javeriana.edu.co.
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bernal
keywords: Chain Reaction Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase; Messenger RNA; RCIU; human placental lactogen; plasma; pregnancy complications