Postnatal lung development and its impairment by glucocorticoids

Neonatology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 178-179

  Tschanz, Stefan A ^a   Burri, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; SURFACTANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029997566     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000244299     Document Type: Article

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