Physiological implications of the materno-fetal oxygen gradient in human early pregnancy

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 250-253

  Jauniaux, Eric ^a   Gulbis, Beatrice ^b   Burton, Graham J ^c  

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

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coelomic fluid; Fetus; Oxygen; Placenta; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; OXYGEN TENSION; PLACENTA; SENSOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0141739367     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61760-9     Document Type: Article

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