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Placental function and fetal nutrition

Battaglia, Frederick C.

Placental function and fetal nutrition - Philadelphia Lippincott-Raven 1997 - 263; ill.,bibls.; BookFind - NestleĀ“ Nutrition workshop series volume 39 .

Hardback This text, covering the 39th Nestle Nutrition Workshop, is based on a presentation forum by international specialists in placental function and foetal nutrition. The five sessions of the conference include a mixture of basic and clinical research topics, and follow the progress made in understanding placental transport and metabolism and its impact on human preganancy. There are descriptions of normal foetal growth and metabolism, along with explorations of how specific maternal diseases affect foetal and placental nutrition. It includes suggestions for potential therapeutic application to human pregnancies.

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BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, physiology
CONGRESSES
FOETAL GROWTH RETARDATION, metabolism
FOETUS, embryology
NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY
PLACENTA, physiology
PREGNANCY
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