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Abstract
The human fetal birth weight does not scale linearly with the weight of the placenta, but exhibits an allometric scaling consistent with Kleiber's Law for the basal metabolic rate. We discuss the possible causes of such scaling, and its clinical consequences. In particular, we show that the value of the scaling exponent is an indicator of a normal fetoplacental development.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19285342 PMCID: PMC2699210 DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.12.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Placenta ISSN: 0143-4004 Impact factor: 3.481