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Chronobiology of Pregnancy and the Perinatal Time Span

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Biologic Rhythms in Clinical and Laboratory Medicine

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Most biological rhythms detected in nonpregnant women persist in the pregnant state. Many of these rhythms are altered during the process of physiological adaptation to pregnancy. A discussion of these rhythms and changes is outside the limited scope of this chapter, which will focus on chronobiological events unique to pregnancy, the fetus, and the newborn. We shall discuss results obtained from the study of humans with some additional data obtained from study of nonhuman primates.

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  1. Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpétrière, Laboratoire de Biochimie Médicale, 91, Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634, Paris Cedex 13, France

    Yvan Touitou (Professor of Biochemistry) (Professor of Biochemistry)

  2. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, 640 Jackson Street, 55101-259, St.Paul, MN, USA

    Erhard Haus (Professor, Chairman) (Professor, Chairman)

  3. Department of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center, 640 Jackson Street, 55101-259, St.Paul, MN, USA

    Erhard Haus (Professor, Chairman) (Professor, Chairman)

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Meis, P.J. (1992). Chronobiology of Pregnancy and the Perinatal Time Span. In: Touitou, Y., Haus, E. (eds) Biologic Rhythms in Clinical and Laboratory Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78734-8_11

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