Carotid arterial blood flow in the ovine fetus as a continuous measure of cerebral blood flow

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 60-65

  Gratton, Robert ^a   Carmichael, Lesley ^a   Homan, Jacobus ^a   Richardson, Bryan S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

breathing movements; Fetal cerebral blood flow; fetal heart rate decelerations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN TISSUE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS HEART RATE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; MAXILLARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; TISSUE PERFUSION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS; HEART RATE, FETAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

EID: 0030067559     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1071-5576(95)00047-X     Document Type: Article

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