National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
ΕΠΙΠΕΔΑ ΚΟΡΤΙΖΟΛΗΣ ΑΙΜΑΤΟΣ ΜΗΤΕΡΑΣ, ΕΜΒΡΥΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΜΝΙΑΚΟΥ ΥΓΡΟΥ ΕΠΙ ΤΕΛΕΙΟΜΗΝΩΝ ΚΥΗΣΕΩΝ
Abstract
dc:descriptionCORTISOL LEVELS ON MATERNAL AND FETAL BLOOD AS WELL AS AMNIOTIC FLUID WERE DETERMINED RADIOIMMUNOLOGICALLY IN 73 NORMAL PREGNANCIES BETWEEN THE 37TH AND 42ND WEEKS OF GESTATION. CORTISOL LEVELS ON MATERNAL BLOOD WERE HIGHER (X+-SD=79,8 +- 32.87 MG/ML) THEN THOSE OF AMNIOTIC FLUID AND FETAL BLOOD (X+-SD=49.24+-23.18 AND 45.30+-22.31 MG/ML RESPECTIVELY). A SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE CORRELATION WAS FOUND BETWEEN THEM. NO SIGNIFICANT FLUCTUATION WERE OBSERVED DURING THE LAST WEEKS OF GESTATION - ON MATERNAL AND FETAL BLOOD AND AMNIOTIC FLUID CORTISOL LEVELS. FURTHERMORE CORTISOL LEVELS WERE NOT DEPENDED BY MATERNAL AND BABY WEIGHT AS WELL AS BY TIME OF DELIVERY. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT THE RELATIVE HIGH CORTISOL LEVELS FOUND IN OUR STUDY ARE DUE TO THE DELIVERY STRESS.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Year dc:date
- 1985
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Αγραπίδης, Χρήστος
Subjects
dc:subject × 13Rights
- Language dc:language
- gre
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- 10.12681/eadd/0379
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:10442/0379