Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF)-I and Insulin in Normal and Growth-Restricted Mother/Infant Pairs

• Main Authors: Ariadne Malamitsi-Puchner (Author), Despina D. Briana (Author), Dimitrios Gourgiotis (Author), Maria Boutsikou (Author), Karl-Philipp Puchner (Author), Stavroula Baka (Author), Antonios Marmarinos (Author), Dimitrios Hassiakos (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and insulin are essential for fetal growth. We investigated perinatal changes of both factors in 40 mothers and their 20 appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) and 20 intrauterine-growth-restricted (IUGR) fetuses and neonates on day 1 (N1) and day 4 (N4) postpartum....