S-nitrosothiol and S-nitrosoalbumin levels in pre-eclampsia plasma

The aetiology of pre-eclampsia still eludes researchers. Recently, the development of laboratory techniques to measure the levels of serum nitrosothiols, compounds that appear to play a role in signal transduction and stress responses, could be the driving force in the search for the exact cause of pre-eclampsia. We attempted to verify a new technique of estimating the levels of S-nitrosothiols and S-nitrosoalbumin in pre-eclampsia. The laboratory technique used as described previously could not identify these compounds. None the less, these nitrosothiols and nitrosoalbumin may be involved in the aetiology of pre-eclampsia.