Coenzyme Q10 in pregnancy

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 264-270

  Noia, Giuseppe ^a   Littarru, Gian Paolo ^b   De Santis, Marco ^a   Oradei, Alessandro ^a   Mastromarino, Carmen ^a   Trivellini, Carmen ^a   Caruso, Alessandro ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coenzyme Q10 levels; Contractile activity; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

UBIDECARENONE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMINENT ABORTION; MYOMETRIUM; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

EID: 0029893114     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000264313     Document Type: Article

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