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Renee Raab
Researcher at Oregon Health & Science University
Publications - 1
Citations - 308
Renee Raab is an academic researcher from Oregon Health & Science University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fetus & Nicotinic agonist. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 296 citations.
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Prenatal nicotine increases pulmonary α7 nicotinic receptor expression and alters fetal lung development in monkeys
Harmanjatinder S. Sekhon,Yibing Jia,Renee Raab,Alexander Kuryatov,James F. Pankow,Jeffrey A. Whitsett,Jon Lindstrom,Eliot R. Spindel +7 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that nicotine can alter fetal monkey lung development by crossing the placenta to interact directly with nicotinic receptors on non-neuronal cells in the developing lung, and that similar effects likely occur in human infants whose mothers smoke during pregnancy.