Smoking in pregnancy: a risk factor for adverse neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm infants?
Smoking in pregnancy emerged as a risk predictor for adverse neurodevelopmental outcome in our study. Strategies to reduce smoking in pregnancy should be further endorsed.
Our results suggest that insulin-elicited glucose transport (and the corresponding GLUT4 recruitment into the plasma membrane) in human vascular smooth muscle cells is mediated by an increased synthesis of NO, which stimulates the production of cyclic GMP and the subsequent activation of a cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase.