Cationic amino acid transporter activity in the syncytiotrophoblast microvillous plasma membrane and oxygenation of the uteroplacental unit

Placenta

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages

  Radaelli, T ^a   Cetin, I ^a   Ayuk, P T Y ^c   Glazier, J D ^b   Pardi, G ^a   Sibley, C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ARGININE; CATION; GLUTAMINE; TRITIUM; OXYGEN;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MICROVILLUS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGENATION; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; UMBILICAL VEIN; UTERINE BLOOD VESSEL; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION; ADULT; BLOOD; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TROPHOBLAST;

ADULT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, BASIC; ARGININE; CATIONS; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MICROVILLI; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 10644264309     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.2002.0801     Document Type: Article

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