Maternal and foetal activin A levels: Associations with normal and abnormal labour

Placenta

Volumn 23, Issue 8-9, 2002, Pages 570-574

  Schneider Kolsky, M E ^a   Tong, S ^a   Wallace, Euan M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ACTIVIN; INHIBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; MEASUREMENT; MOTHER; PH MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VAGINAL DELIVERY; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY; FETUS BLOOD; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTIVINS; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0036728367     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.2002.0854     Document Type: Article

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