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SEROMUCOID AND ALBUMIN LEVELS IN MATERNAL AND CORD SERUM IN RELATION TO OBSTETRIC STRESS
Author(s) -
Good W.,
Cochran T. E.,
Macdonald H. N.,
Cumberbatch K. N.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1973.tb16054.x
Subject(s) - albumin , orosomucoid , context (archaeology) , serum albumin , medicine , endocrinology , cord blood , blood proteins , chemistry , glycoprotein , biochemistry , biology , paleontology
Summary The perchloric acid‐soluble glycoproteins of serum (seromucoid), a serum protein sub‐fraction which increases dramatically, together with a fall in serum albumin, in a wide variety of clinical situations, including clinical stress, was examined in relation to the stress of parturition. The results indicated that while the clinical stress response is not necessarily absent during childbirth, the profound changes in the amount and distribution of body fluid which occur at this time effectively mask any stress response that may have been invoked. Cord serum was also examined in this context and contained higher levels of albumin and considerably lower levels of seromucoid than maternal serum.