Effect of prolonged uterine blood flow reduction on fetal growth in sheep

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 270, Issue 1 39-1, 1996, Pages

  Boyle, David W ^a,b   Lecklitner, Sara ^a   Liechty, Edward A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

glucose uptake; hypoxemia; intrauterine growth retardation; lactate; limb metabolism; oxygen consumption

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS WEIGHT; GROWTH RATE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0030043110     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1996.270.1.r246     Document Type: Article

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