Fetal plasma leptin concentrations: Relationship with different intrauterine growth patterns from 19 weeks to term

Pediatric Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 646-651

  Cetin, Irene ^a,c   Morpurgo, Paola S ^b   Radaelli, Tatjana ^a   Taricco, Emanuela ^a   Cortelazzi, Donatella ^b   Bellotti, Maria ^a   Pardi, Giorgio ^a   Beck Peccoz, Paolo ^b  

^a Ospedale San Paolo   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS HEART RATE; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033762191     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-200011000-00016     Document Type: Article

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