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The Use of Gas Chromatography to Analyze Compositional Changes of Fatty Acids in Rat Liver Tissue during Pregnancy
Published on: March 13, 2014
Amino acid profiles during development of the fetal rat
E McEvoy-Bowe1, J Hislop, D Wiggins
1Metabolic Research Laboratory, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK.
Biology of the Neonate
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
Umbilical blood venous-arterial differences for amino acids across the rat fetus show uptake of disproportionately large amounts of glutamine, alanine and lysine relative to their contribution to total body protein. Free amino acid concentrations in fetal liver tend to increase during development, but show a rapid adjustment to near-adult values within 24 h after birth.
