Relationship of fetal alanine uptake and placental alanine metabolism to maternal plasma alanine concentration

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 275, Issue 6 38-6, 1998, Pages

  Timmerman, Michelle ^a   Chung, Misoo ^b   Wilkening, Randall B ^b   Fennessey, Paul V ^b   Battaglia, Frederick C ^b   Meschia, Giacomo ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alanine fluxes; Alanine turnover; Amino acids; Umbilical uptake

Indexed keywords

ALANINE;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; MATERNAL PLASMA; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; UMBILICUS;

EID: 0032443126     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1998.275.6.e942     Document Type: Article

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