Partitioning of glutamine synthesised by the isolated perfused human placenta between the maternal and fetal circulations
Introduction: placental glutamine synthesis has been demonstrated in animals and is thought to increase the availability of this metabolically important amino acid to the fetus. Glutamine is of fundamental importance for cellular replication, cellular function and inter-organ nitrogen transfer. The...
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