Hepatocyte growth factor concentration in the early second-trimester amniotic fluid does not predict fetal growth at birth

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2625-2628

  Ohnishi, Yohichi ^a   Yamashiro, Chizu ^a   Yanagihara, Toshihiro ^a   Hata, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid; Early second trimester; Fetal growth; Hepatocyte growth factor; Insulin like growth factor I

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; PLACENTA WEIGHT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

EID: 0032828558     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.10.2625     Document Type: Article

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