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CORD BLOOD PORPHYRINS A Quantitative Assay in Newborn Infants
Author(s) -
HANDA F.,
SHARMA S. C.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1977.tb07895.x
Subject(s) - medicine , umbilical cord , protoporphyrin , cord blood , mean value , physiology , obstetrics , biochemistry , immunology , porphyrin , chemistry , statistics , mathematics
. A quantitative assay of free erythrocyte porphyrins was done in umbilical cord blood of 30 newborn babies by a spectrophotometry method. The mean value of free erythrocyte protoporphyrin in umbilical cord blood was found to be 74.58 μg/100 ml packed erythrocytes and that of free erythrocyte coproporphyrin to be 0.77 μg/100 ml packed erythrocytes with a standard deviation of ±29.99 and ±1.48 respectively. Relationship between free erythrocyte protoporphyrin and free erythrocyte coproporphyrin and their correlations with birth weight and sex of the newborn baby were found to be statistically significant.