PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Legge, M
AU  - Potter, H C
TI  - Amniotic fluid fluorescence polarisation values for assessing fetal lung maturation.
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.34.10.1094
DP  - 1981 Oct 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 1094--1096
VI  - 34
IP  - 10
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/34/10/1094.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/34/10/1094.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol1981 Oct 01; 34
AB  - The fluorescence probe 1,6, diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene was used to determine the micro-viscosity of third trimester amniotic fluid samples utilising an Aminco Bowman spectrofluorometer fitted with a polariser prism. The results were related to the lecithin sphingomyelin (L:S) ratio. A fluorescence polarisation value of 0.360 corresponded to an L:S ratio of 2.0 in uncomplicated and diabetic pregnancies. Pregnancies complicated by Rhesus disease gave significantly different fluorescence polarisation values when compared with the uncomplicated pregnancies.