Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid transport across the perfused human placenta

Placenta

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 635-642

  Haggarty, P ^a,b   Page, K ^b   Abramovich, D R ^b   Ashton, J ^a   Brown, D ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID; HUMAN ALBUMIN; LINOLEIC ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; OLEIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; RINGER SOLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS CIRCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFUSION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030819377     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-4004(97)90004-7     Document Type: Article

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