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The 4-vessel Sampling Approach to Integrative Studies of Human Placental Physiology In Vivo
Published on: August 2, 2017
Polyol accumulation in human placenta and umbilical cord
Abstract:
Ultrafiltrable metabolites in human term placenta and umbilical cord were analysed by means of 13C-NMR spectroscopy and gas-liquid chromatography. In these tissues, existing in a very reduced redox state, lactate and polyols (sorbitol, myoinositol and xylitol) were found to be the major accumulated intermediates of the glycolytic pathways. The cord tissue preferentially took up myoinositol.

