Oxygen and placental villous development: Origins of fetal hypoxia

Placenta

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 613-621

  Kingdom, J C P ^a   Kaufmann, P ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FETUS; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; OXYGENATION; PLACENTA VILLUS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL VEIN;

EID: 0030846190     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-4004(97)90000-X     Document Type: Article

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