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Free Fatty Acid Patterns of Human Maternal Plasma, Perfused Placenta and Umbilical Cord Plasma

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CHEN et al.1 have shown that there is a variation in the amount of individual free fatty acids in maternal and cord plasma, suggesting that the foetal free fatty acids do not arise solely from the maternal circulation. The placenta is known to synthesize fatty acids2 and to use free fatty acids in the formation of phospholipids3 and cholesterol esters (unpublished work of A. Robertson, H. Sprecher and C. Dobbs). To investigate the inter-relationships of maternal, placental and newborn free fatty acids, we have analysed the free fatty acids from these sources in normal pregnancies.

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  1. Departments of Pediatrics (Division of Neonatology) and Physiological Chemistry, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and The Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Columbus, Ohio

    A. ROBERTSON, H. SPRECHER & J. WILCOX

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ROBERTSON, A., SPRECHER, H. & WILCOX, J. Free Fatty Acid Patterns of Human Maternal Plasma, Perfused Placenta and Umbilical Cord Plasma. Nature 217, 378–379 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217378a0

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