Fluid compartments of the embryonic environment

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 268-278

  Jauniaux, Eric ^a,c   Gulbis, Beatrice ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid; Coelomic fluid; First trimester of pregnancy; Placenta; Yolk sac

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMNION FLUID; BODY FLUID; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MATERNAL SERUM; MESODERM; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REVIEW; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0034081334     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/6.3.268     Document Type: Review

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