Plasma free amino acid patterns in pregnancy: relationships to gestational age and applications to detection of fetal distress.
Data on free amino acids in serial samples of plasma from 15 pregnancies from 14 women have been compared to data from normal nonpregnant women by use of pattern-recognition program. The overall amino acid patterns were found to be a reproducible function of gestational age. Two samples from a woman with a pregnancy terminated by a spontaneous abortion were clearly resolved from all the other samples by this procedure.
D000328:Adult; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000097:blood*; D003201:Computers; D005260:Female; D005316:Fetal Distress / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D011247:Pregnancy; D011336:Probability
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