We used ultrasound to measure fetal subcutaneous fat in pregnancies with normal and abnormal glucose tolerance tests (GTT).
Objectives: We measured S100B levels and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity retrospectively in amniotic fluid samples from pregnancies with normal and Down syndrome (DS) fetuses.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate perinatal outcomes of infants who had pathologic fetal heart rate tracings during the first stage of labor, in comparison with pregnancies with normal tracings.
Previous studies from our laboratory have shown that the water channel aquaporin 1 (AQP1) is expressed in human fetal membranes from term pregnancies with normal amniotic fluid (AF) volume.
A total of 137 pregnancies with normal glucose tolerance in the third trimester attending our outpatient clinic between September 2007 and April 2009 served as a control group.
We studied AF samples from three pregnancies with normal karyotypes, which were referred for molecular investigation following the detection of omphalocele by US imaging (Tables 2 and 3).
A continuous debate remains regarding maternal factors that predict birth weight in healthy nondiabetic pregnancies with normal glucose tolerance [ 8, 15, 16].
Consequently, Zhong et al. [ 10] confirm these results by showing elevated levels of fetal DNA in pregnancies with trisomy 21 fetuses (mean 185.6 genome-equivalents/ml) when compared to pregnancies with normal male fetuses (mean 83.1 genome-equivalents/ml).
