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A paper chromatographic analysis of the lipids in maternal and cord blood and human amniotic fluid was made. The reduced lipid content of cord blood was confined to the plasma where phosphatidyl ethanolamine and the corresponding plasmalogen were disproportionately reduced. The amniotic fluid had a number of PAS positive components not observed in blood cells or plasma.
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