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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 267: E150-E155, 1994;
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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 267, Issue 1 E150-E155, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Placental and fetal serine fluxes at midgestation in the fetal lamb

R. R. Moores Jr, B. S. Carter, G. Meschia, P. V. Fennessey and F. C. Battaglia
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver 80262.

Plasma serine disposal rate (DR), decarboxylation, and conversion to fetal plasma glycine by the placenta were measured in six fetal lambs at 72 +/- 1 days gestation. L-[1-13C]serine, L-[U-14C]serine, and 3H2O were infused over 3 h into the fetal circulation, the latter for measurement of uterine and umbilical blood flow. The fetal plasma serine DR was 8.7 +/- 1.0 mumol/min or 61.8 +/- 4 mumol.min-1.kg fetus-1. Approximately 90% of the DR represented placental uptake of fetal serine. There was no detectable release of fetal serine into the maternal circulation. The fetal arterial plasma glycine-to-serine enrichment ratio was approximately 0.30. The conversion rate of fetal serine to fetal plasma glycine by the placenta was 5.8 +/- 0.7% of the serine DR. Fetal and placental CO2 production from fetal plasma serine carbon was 1.9 +/- 0.4 and 1.2 +/- 0.4 mumol/min, respectively. Thus, at midgestation, there is a rapid fetoplacental serine exchange that constitutes most of the fetal plasma serine turnover. Placental conversion of serine to fetal glycine and serine oxidation together account for only 10% of the placental uptake of fetal serine.


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