Androgen concentrations in umbilical cord blood and their association with maternal, fetal and obstetric factors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Keelan, Jeffrey A ^a   Mattes, Eugen ^b   Tan, HaiWei ^c   Dinan, Andrew ^c   Newnham, John P ^a   Whitehouse, Andrew J O ^b   Jacoby, Peter ^b   Hickey, Martha ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c BioSA Incubator   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PRASTERONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORD SERUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LABOR; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRASTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADULT; ANDROGENS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84865167968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042827     Document Type: Article

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