Computational modelling of amino acid transfer interactions in the placenta

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 829-840

  Sengers, B G ^a   Please, C P ^a   Lewis, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; SERINE; AMINO ACID; GLYCINE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; PLACENTA PERFUSION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TROPHOBLAST;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GLYCINE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SERINE; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 77953645368     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2010.052902     Document Type: Article

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