... supplementation on serum FGF23 and to elucidate longitudinal changes in FGF23, in addition to studying its association with mineral metabolism in early infancy. Methods: Altogether 113 healthy infants received vitamin D 3 10, 30 or 40 µg/day from age 0.5 to 3.0 months. Cord blood at birth and capillary blood...

...Bjorn Ogland; Pål R. Romundstad; Hege Vefring; Michele R. Forman; Stein Tore Nilsen; Lars J. Vatten Aims: To compare cord blood concentrations of total adiponectin in the offspring of pregnancies with and without preeclampsia. Methods: Using a Luminex analyzer, cord blood adiponectin was measured...

...Moriharu Misaki; Masatsugu Kumazawa; Makoto Sugita; Teruo Shima; Tooru Okazaki Cord blood levels of transferrin (Tf) and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-1) were measured in 33 normal and 12 preterm infants. Tf was measured by the single radial immunodiffusion technique, while IGF-1 was measured...

...Makoto Inoue; Kazuo Itabashi; Yuya Nakano; Yasuko Nakano; Takashi Tobe Aims: High-molecular-weight adiponectin (HMW-ad) is an active form of adiponectin. No information is available with respect to HMW-ad in neonates. The aims of this study were to examine whether HMW-ad is present in cord blood...

... for examination of the relationship between two parameters. Figure  1 illustrates the comparison of serum levels of CTX between maternal and cord blood at term delivery. The CTX concentration in cord serum (4,605 ± 132 g/ mmol·Cr) was significantly higher than that in maternal serum (2,677 ± 211...

... more insight into a potential role of leptin during gestation, a prospective, longitudinal study was carried out to measure leptin concentrations in maternal serum of 29 healthy women during pregnancy up to 6 weeks after birth and also in umbilical cord blood of their newborns. Leptin concentrations...