Effect of Smoking on Serum Concentrations of Total Homocysteine, Folate, Vitamin B12, and Nitric Oxide in Pregnancy: A Preliminary Study

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-148

  Özerol, Elif ^a,b   Özerol, Ibrahim ^a   Gökdeniz, Remzi ^a   Temel, Ismail ^a   Akyol, Omer ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Folate; Homocysteine; Nitric oxide; Pregnancy; Smoking; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; NITRIC OXIDE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; PREGNANCY; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 1142286318     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075139     Document Type: Article

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