Comparison of leucine, serine and glycine transport across the ovine placenta

Placenta

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 619-627

  Geddie, G ^a   Moores, R ^a   Meschia, G ^b   Fennessey, P ^a,b   Wilkening, R ^a   Battaglia, F C ^a  

^a Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GLYCINE; LEUCINE; SERINE; TRACER;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MATERNAL BLOOD; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0029827871     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-4004(96)80080-4     Document Type: Article

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