Profile of neurokinin B concentrations in maternal and cord blood in normal pregnancy

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 597-600

  Sakamoto, Rie ^a   Osada, Hisao ^a   Iitsuka, Yoshinori ^a   Masuda, Kentarou ^a   Kaku, Kenshi ^a   Seki, Katsuyoshi ^b   Sekiya, Souei ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROKININ B;

ADULT; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATERNAL BLOOD; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PUERPERIUM; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; NEUROKININ B; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 0037994319     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01758.x     Document Type: Article

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