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Placental transport of carbohydrates
Mead Johnson Symposium on Perinatal and Developmental Medicine
|January 1, 1981
Abstract:
Glucose transport across the placenta takes place by means of a facilitated process. The transporter shows considerable specificity with respect to different hexoses. Transport across the microvillous plasma membrane of the trophoblast surface facing the intervillous space has been characterized. The details of transport across the fetal directed plasma membrane and the regulation of D-glucose membrane protein transporters remain unknown.