Postnatal triiodothyronine concentrations in healthy preterm infants and in infants with respiratory distress syndrome

Pediatric Research

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1977, Pages 802-804

  Abbassi, Val ^a   Merchant, Kulsum ^a   Abramson, David ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; SURFACTANT;

CASE REPORT; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PREMATURITY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SERUM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BODY WEIGHT; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0017754807     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-197707000-00004     Document Type: Article

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19. The technical assistance of Ms. Carolyn Aldridge and secretarial assistance of Ms. Mary F. Holroyd is greatly appreciated.
20. This research was presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Society ot Pediatric Research. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1976.
21. This research was supported in part by Public Health Serv ice Grant RR 5360-11.the Herman Goldman Foundation and National Institutes of Health Grunt 5 MOI-RR-00060-13.