In vitro studies of amniotic fluid and intrauterine growth retardation
Reiher, H.; Joschko, K.; Jentsch, K.; Randow, H.; Hawlitschek, R.; Dunger, A.; Hahn, H.J.
Zentralblatt für Gynakologie 109(19): 1191-1194
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4197 PMID: 3318223 Document Number: 294821
Until now the intrauterine growth retardation remains as an insufficiently solved problem. The 3H-thymidine incorporation into the DNA of the isolated islets of Langerhans of neonatal Lewis rats was used as a marker for cell dividing activity in vitro. There was no inhibition effect on the 3H-thymidine incorporation in the presence of amniotic fluid from pregnancies with intrauterine growth retardation compared to those of normal pregnancies.