Chatzakis K, Wathen N, Campbell J, Iles R, Dawnay A, Chard T
Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Physiology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, West Smithfield, London, UK.
Early Hum Dev. 1994 Feb;36(2):113-6. doi: 10.1016/0378-3782(94)90038-8.
Concentrations of placental protein 14 (PP14) were measured by radioimmunoassay in 103 amniotic fluid samples from 10 to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Low levels of PP14 were present at 10-12 weeks (median values 82-280 micrograms/l). After 12 weeks, the levels increased by two orders of magnitude to reach a peak at 18 weeks (median 11 mg/l). This pattern may reflect the obliteration of the extraembryonic coelom and direct apposition of the decidua with the chorio-amnion.