the production of vasodilatory , antiaggregatory prostacyclin ( pgi2 ) and vasoconstrictory , proaggregatory thromboxane a2 ( txa2 ) by the placenta was studied in the cases of hypertensive pregnancy complications by superfusing pieces from maternal and fetal sides of placentae of 9 pre-eclamptic , 6 hypertensive and 11 healthy women in vitro and measuring the release of 6-keto-prostaglandin f1 alpha ( 6-keto-pgf1 alpha ) and thromboxane b2 ( txb2 ) , the breakdown products of pgi2 and txa2 respectively , from the superfusate .
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