Article
High activity of fatty acid oxidation enzymes in human placenta: Implications for fetal‐maternal disease
1 Jun 2003
Abstract excerpt
As the human fetus and placenta are considered to be primarily dependent on glucose oxidation for energy metabolism, the cause of the remarkable association between severe maternal pregnancy complications and the carriage of a fetus with an inborn error of mitochondrial long-chain fatty acid oxidation (FAO) has remained obscure. We analysed human term placenta and chorionic villus samples for the activities of a...
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