Medicine

The maternal and fetal physiologic effects of nicotine.

D. Lambers, K. Clark

1996.4.1SEMINARS IN PERINATOLOGY

DOI: 10.1016/s0146-0005(96)80079-6

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The physiological effect of tobacco on fetal growth seems to be a culmination of both the vasoconstrictive effects of nicotine on the uterine and potentially the umbilical artery and the effects on oxygenation by carboxyhemoglobin.

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LAMBERS, D.; CLARK, K. The maternal and fetal physiologic effects of nicotine. SEMINARS IN PERINATOLOGY, 1996, 20 2: 115–26.