Plasma fibronectin levels and age-corrected birth weight in hypertensive-normotensive mothers and their newborns

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-51

  Orbak, Zerrin ^a,b   Zor, Nevin ^a   Akçay, Fatih ^a   Kaya, Dursun ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN; PREECLAMPSIA;

EID: 0031910308     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/44.1.49     Document Type: Article

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