TY  - JOUR
T1  - COmparison of vitamin b1 levels in mothers and their newborn infants
AU  - SLOBODY LB, WILLNER MM, MESTERN J
Y1  - 1949/06/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040751004
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 736
EP  - 739
VL  - 77
IS  - 6
N2  - THE PLASMA ascorbic acid concentrations of the newborn infant and of cord blood were shown to be considerably higher than that of the maternal blood.1 Similar studies with the intradermal test2 for vitamin C gave results which are in agreement with these reports of maternal-neonatal ascorbic acid levels of plasma. These studies suggested the important concept that the fetus takes its supply of vitamin C whether or not the mother has a sufficient amount.The question whether other vitamins act in a similar fashion should be investigated. It seemed worth while, first, to study the relationships of thiamine in the mother and her newborn infant. In previous studies with determinations of thiamine levels in the blood of children, we observed that values for thiamine were more stable than those for ascorbic acid. In children there was a normal range of 4.8 to 12.3 micrograms per hundred cubic centimeters,
SN  - 0096-8994
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040751004
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040751004
ER  -