Changes in plasma adenosine concentrations during normal pregnancy

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 145-148

  Yoneyama, Yoshio ^a   Suzuki, Shunji ^a   Sawa, Rintaro ^a   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^a   Kobayashi, Hajime ^a   Takei, Rintaro ^a   Kiyokawa, Yasuko ^a   Otsubo, Yasuo ^a   Hayashi, Zuisei ^a   Araki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Platelets; Pregnancy, normal; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE METABOLISM; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION;

EID: 0033808240     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000010313     Document Type: Article

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