The human first trimester gestational sac limits rather than facilitates oxygen transfer to the foetus - A review

Placenta

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL. A, 2003, Pages

  Jauniaux, E ^a   Gulbis, B ^b   Burton, G J ^c  

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

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; OXYGEN; OXYGEN RADICAL; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ABSORPTION; AMNION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; CAPILLARY; CHORION VILLUS; DIFFUSION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ERYTHROCYTE; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS CELL; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INVOLUTION; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL PLASMA; MESENCHYME; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRITION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUPPLEMENTATION; TERATOGENICITY; THICKNESS; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0141838123     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.2002.0932     Document Type: Review

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