Schoonheyt W E, Clarke J T, Hanley W B, Johnson J M, Lehotay D C
Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Clin Chim Acta. 1994 Mar;225(2):165-9. doi: 10.1016/0009-8981(94)90044-2.
Plasma phenylalanine concentrations in fetal blood, obtained by cordocentesis, were compared with simultaneous peripheral venous plasma phenylalanine levels in mothers. The feto-maternal phenylalanine concentration ratio showed a gradual decrease from 19 weeks of gestation to term with an overall ratio of 1.35 +/- 0.42 (mean +/- S.D., n = 14).