Maternal and fetal blood ammonia concentrations in normal term human pregnancies

Biology of the Neonate

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-43

  Jóźwik, Maciej ^a   Jóźwik, Marcin ^a   Pietrzycki, Bartosz ^a   Chojnowski, Marcin ^a   Teng, Cecilia ^c   Jóźwik, Michał ^a,b   Battaglia, Frederick C ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b Institute of Mother and Child   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Fetus; Human; Placenta; Sheep

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MATERNAL BLOOD; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL VEIN; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADULT; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 11844302272     PISSN: 00063126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081702     Document Type: Article

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