Experimental aspects of nutrition and fetal growth

Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 91-107

  Bloomfield, F H ^a   Harding, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; CORTISONE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GLUCOSE; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN; PHENYLALANINE; PLACENTA LACTOGEN; PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; TOLBUTAMIDE;

ACIDOSIS; ADAPTATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRITION; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; REVIEW; SUPPLEMENTATION; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0031722815     PISSN: 09655395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0965539597000235     Document Type: Review

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