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Substrate utilization by the fetal sheep lung during the last trimester

R A Simmons1, V E Charlton

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, CVRI, University of California, San Francisco 94143.

Pediatric Research
|June 1, 1988
PubMed
Summary

Fetal lung metabolism shifts near term, with increased oxygen use and amino nitrogen delivery, but decreased glucose uptake. These substrate changes may signal lung maturation.

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