Umbilical uptakes and transplacental concentration ratios of amino acids in severe fetal growth restriction

Pediatric Research

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 602-611

  Regnault, Timothy R H ^a   De Vrijer, Barbra ^b   Galan, Henry L ^c   Wilkening, Randall B ^a   Battaglia, Frederick C ^a   Meschia, Giacomo ^a  

^a Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Colorado   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HYPOXIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICUS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; UMBILICUS;

EID: 84879101946     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2013.30     Document Type: Article

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