Pteridines (Nov 1999)

Correlation of Neopterin Concentrations In Amniotic Fluid and Urine of Pregnant Women at Delivery

  • Widner Bernhard,
  • Fuith Lothar C.,
  • Czarnecki Maryan,
  • Fuchs Dietmar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/pteridines.1999.10.4.217
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
pp. 217 – 219

Abstract

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Median neopterin concentration in amniotic fluid at delivery was 72 nM which is approximately 10-fold the maternal and fetal serum concentration. A strong correlation existed between neopterin concentrations in amniotic fluid and urine, except an unproportionally high level in amniotic fluid in one case with an intrauterine infection.

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