Melatonin concentration in umbilical cord blood depends on mode of delivery

Early Human Development

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 369-373

  Bagci, Soyhan ^a   Berner, Anna Lena ^a   Reinsberg, Jochen ^a   Gast, Anne Sybil ^a   Zur, Berndt ^a   Welzing, Lars ^a   Bartmann, Peter ^a   Mueller, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delivery; Labor; Melatonin; Neonates; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ARTICLE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CESAREAN SECTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; LABOR INDUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RISK FACTOR; STRESS; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UMBILICAL VEIN; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MELATONIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 84860504142     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2011.09.012     Document Type: Article

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