Maternal serum transformed α-fetoprotein levels in women with intrauterine growth retardation

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 294-298

  Bartha, Jose L ^a,b   Illanes, Sebastian ^a   González Bugatto, Fernando ^a   Abdel Fattah, Sherif A ^a   Mizejewski, Gerald J ^a   Soothill, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fetoprotein; Growth retardation; Pregnancy complications

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BLOOD; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34250330816     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100794     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Morinaga T, Sakai M, Wegmann TG, Tomoaki T: Primary structures of human AFP and its mRNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1983;80:4604-4608.
2. Vakharia D, Mizejewski G: Human α-fetoprotein peptides bind estrogen receptor and estradiol and suppress breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2000;63:41-52.
3. Butterstein G, Morrison J, Mizejewski GJ: Effect of α-fetoprotein and derived peptides on insulin- and estrogen-induced fetotoxicity. Fetal Diagn Ther 2003;18:360-369.
4. Mizejewski G, Dias J, Hauer C, Henrikson K, Gierthy J: α-Fetoprotein-derived synthetic peptides: assay of an estrogen-modifying regulatory segment. Moll Cell Endocrinol 1996;118:15-23.
5. Moore TR, Cayle JE: The amniotic fluid index in normal human pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1990;162:1168-1173.
6. Wald N, Cuckle H, Stirrat GM, Bennett MJ, Turnbull AC: Maternal serum α-fetoprotein and low birth weight. Lancet 1977;ii:268-270.
7. Brock DJ, Barron L, Jelen P, Watt M, Scrimgeour JB: Maternal serum α-fetoprotein measurements as an early indicator of low birth weight. Lancet 1977;ii:267-268.
8. Yaron Y, Cherry M, Kramer RL, O'Brien JE, Hallak M, Johnson MP, Evans MI: Second-trimester maternal serum marker screening: maternal serum α-fetoprotein, β-human chorionic gonadotropin, estriol, and their various combinations as predictors of pregnancy outcome. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1999;181:968-974.
9. Huang T, Alberman E, Watt HC, Wald NJ: Using Down syndrome serum screening results to predict low birth weight. Prenat Diagn 2003;23:420-426.
10. Beratis NG, Varvarigou A, Christophidou M, Vassilakos P, Tsapanos V, Kourounis G: Cord blood α-fetoprotein concentrations in term newborns of smoking mothers. Eur J Pediatr 1999;158:583-588.
11. Obiekwe BC, Malek N, Kitau MJ, Chard T: Maternal and fetal α-fetoprotein levels at term. Relation to sex, weight and gestation of the infant. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 1985;64:251-253.
12. Cederqvist LL, Spigelman S, Litwin SD: The fetal serum α-fetoprotein and its relationship to immunoglobulins and birth weight at term. Obstet Gynecol 1983;61:233-237.
13. Morssink LP, de Wolf BT, Kornman LH, Beekhuis JR, van der Hall TP, Mantingh A: The relation between serum markers in the second trimester and placental pathology. A study on extremely small for gestational age fetuses. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1996;103:779-783.
14. Williams MA, Hickok DE, Zingheim RW, Mittendorf R, Kimelman J, Mahony BS: Low birth weight and preterm delivery in relation to early-gestation vaginal bleeding and elevated maternal serum α-fetoprotein. Obstet Gynecol 1992;80:745-749.
15. Mizejewski GJ: α-Fetoprotein binding proteins: implications for transmembrane passage and subcellular localization. Life Sci 1995;56:1-9.
16. Romero R, Kalache KD, Kadar N: Timing the delivery of the preterm severely growth-restricted fetus: venous Doppler, cardiotocography or the biophysical profile? Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2002;19:118-121.
17. Odibo AO, Quinones JN, Lawrence-Cleary K, Stamilio DM, Macones GA: What antepartum fetal test should guide the timing of delivery of the preterm growth-restricted fetus? A decision-analysis. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2004;191:1477-1482.