Urinary orotic acid levels in normal pregnancy and pregnancy-induced hypertension

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-35

  Furutani, Kouichi ^a   Ochi, Hiroshi ^a   Matsubara, Keiichi ^a   Ito, Masaharu ^a   Togari, Hajime ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arginine; Orotic acid; Pregnancy; Pregnancy induced hypertension

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; OROTIC ACID; PYRIMIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0033922702     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000010275     Document Type: Article

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