Placental leptin in normal, diabetic and fetal growth-retarded pregnancies

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 763-769

  Lea, R G ^a   Howe, D ^b   Hannah, L T ^a   Bonneau, O ^a   Hunter, L ^a   Hoggard, N ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Fetal; Leptin; Placenta; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLAST; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 0033870159     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/6.8.763     Document Type: Article

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