...J.P. Royston; P.A. Flecknell; R. Wootton The statistical distribution of birth weights in 54 litters of piglets was examined in an attempt to identify intra-uterine growth-retarded animals. Although birthweight distribution was normal in some litters, in others there appeared to be a discrete...

...C. Vallet-Strouve; C. Tordet-Caridroit In vitro , studies on the desaturation of linoleic acid (essential fatty acid nonsynthetised by animals) in the liver and brain have been carried out during the development of rats with intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR) and of control rats. The IUGR...

...J.M. Roux; T. Jahchan; M.C. Fulchignoni The response of DNA synthesis, thymidine incorporation and the activities of uridine kinase, carbamyl phosphate synthetase and aspartate transcarbamylase were studied in the rat, following intra-uterine growth retardation. A good correlation was found between...

... of the valine/glycine ratio in venous blood of the mothers of all these infants. An abnormally high rate was found in a small number of infants and also in a few mothers. There did not appear to be any association between these abnormal results and intra-uterine growth retardation. 16 9 2009 © 1975...

...E. Sgambati; E. Brizzi; M. Marini; S. Gheri Bryk; G. Gheri The content and the distribution of the glycoconjugate sugar residues were investigated in the human umbilical cord from normally grown pregnancies and from pregnancies complicated by intra-uterine growth retardation with absent or reversed...