The metabolome of human placental tissue: Investigation of first trimester tissue and changes related to preeclampsia in late pregnancy

Metabolomics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 579-597

  Dunn, Warwick B ^a   Brown, Marie ^a   Worton, Stephanie A ^b   Davies, Kyle ^c   Jones, Rebecca L ^b   Kell, Douglas B ^a   Heazell, Alexander E P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

First trimester; Mass spectrometry; Metabolomics; Placenta; Preeclampsia; Systems biology; Tissue

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; FATTY ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID; SPHINGOLIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPID METABOLISM; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; NITRATIVE STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TENSION; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; RELIABILITY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

EID: 84864057078     PISSN: 15733882     EISSN: 15733890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11306-011-0348-6     Document Type: Article

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