Metabolic Scaling Law for Fetus and Placenta

Overview

Journal Placenta

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Gynecology & Obstetrics
Physiology
Reproductive Medicine

Date 2009 Mar 17

PMID 19285342

Citations 14

Authors

C M Salafia

M Yampolsky

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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.

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