Gestational age dependent content, composition and intrauterine accretion rates of fatty acids in fetal white adipose tissue

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 39-49

  Kuipers, Remko S ^a,b   Luxwolda, Martine F ^a   Offringa, Pieter J ^b   Martini, Ingrid A ^a   Rudy Boersma, E ^b   Janneke Dijck Brouwer, D A ^a   Muskiet, Frits A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Accretion rates; Adipose tissue; Arachidonic acid; Docosahexaenoic acid; Fatty acids; Fetal; Fetus; Intrauterine

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84155167433     PISSN: 09523278     EISSN: 15322823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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