FETE-MATERNAL PLASMA PHENYLALANINE CONCENTRATION GRADIENT FROM 19 WEEKS GESTATION TO TERM

Authors
SCHOONHEYT WE CLARKE JTR HANLEY WB JOHNSON JM LEHOTAY DC
Citation
We. Schoonheyt et al., FETE-MATERNAL PLASMA PHENYLALANINE CONCENTRATION GRADIENT FROM 19 WEEKS GESTATION TO TERM, Clinica chimica acta, 225(2), 1994, pp. 165-169
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Medicinal
Journal title
Clinica chimica acta → ACNP
ISSN journal
00098981
Volume
225
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
165 - 169
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-8981(1994)225:2<165:FPPCGF>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Plasma phenylalanine concentrations in fetal blood, obtained by cordoc entesis, were compared with simultaneous peripheral venous plasma phen ylalanine levels in mothers. The fetomaternal phenylalanine concentrat ion ratio showed a gradual decrease from 19 weeks of gestation to term with an overall ratio of 1.35 +/- 0.42 (mean +/- S.D., n = 14).