Effect of maternal age and growth on placental nutrient transport: Potential mechanisms for teenagers' predisposition to small-for-gestational-age birth?

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 302, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hayward, Christina E ^a   Greenwood, Susan L ^a   Sibley, Colin P ^a   Baker, Philip N ^b   Challis, John R G ^a,c   Jones, Rebecca L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent pregnancy; Amino acid transport; Fetal growth; Syncytiotrophoblast

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 2 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BONE GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATERNAL AGE; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

EID: 84855301798     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00192.2011     Document Type: Article

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