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Pregnancy metabolism, diabetes, and the fetus / sponsored by the Ciba Foundation.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Symposium on Pregnancy Metabolism, Diabetes, and the Fetus (1978 : London, England)
- Series:
- Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 63.
- Ciba Foundation symposium ; 63 (new ser.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pregnancy--Congresses.
- Pregnancy.
- Maternal-fetal exchange--Congresses.
- Maternal-fetal exchange.
- Metabolism in pregnancy--Congresses.
- Metabolism in pregnancy.
- Diabetes in pregnancy--Congresses.
- Diabetes in pregnancy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Excerpta Medica, 1979.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
- Contents:
- Pregnancy Metabolism, Diabetes and the Fetus; Contents; Introduction; Pregnancy as a tissue culture experience: the critical implications of maternal metabolism for fetal development; Discussion; The influence of hormonal changes of pregnancy on maternal metabolism; Discussion; Principal substrates of fetal metabolism: fuel and growth requirements of the ovine fetus; Discussion; General Discussion I; Evidence for fatty acid transfer across the human placenta; Discussion; Metabolism during normal and diabetic pregnancy and its effect on neonatal outcome; Discussion; General Discussion II
- Hormonal regulation of perinatal enzyme differentiation in the mammalian liver Discussion; Regulation of placental enzymes of the carbohydrate and lipid metabolic pathways; Discussion; Discussion; Culture in vitro as a means of analysing the effects of maternal diabetes on embryonic development in rats; General Discussion III; Congenital anomalies and the diabetic and prediabetic pregnancy; Discussion; The outcome of diabetic pregnancies: a prospective study; Discussion; The influence of preconceptional glucose values on the outcome of pregnancy
- Congenital malformations: the possible role of diabetes care outside pregnancy Discussion of the two preceding papers; Clinical perspectives in the care of the pregnant diabetic patient; Final General Discussion :; Haemoglobin A 1c; Nutrition and metabolism; Blood sugar levels in pregnancy; Index to contributors; Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613694126
- 9780344900549
- 0344900541
- 9781280783739
- 1280783737
- 9780470720462
- 0470720468
- 9780470718131
- 0470718137
- OCLC:
- 797918427
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