Two neuroactive steroids in midpregnancy as measured in maternal and fetal sera and in amniotic fluid

Steroids

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 399-402

  Bičíková, Marie ^a   Klak, Jan ^a   Hill, Martin ^a   Žižka, Zdeněk ^b   Hampl, Richard ^a   Calda, Pavel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Fetus; Gravidity; Pregnenolone sulfate

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDOCENTESIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; MATERNAL SERUM; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; STEROIDOGENESIS;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANOLONE; PREGNENOLONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036189789     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-128X(01)00196-9     Document Type: Article

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