Preterm betamethasone treatment of fetal sheep: Outcome after term delivery

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 250-258

  Jobe, Alan H ^a   Polk, Daniel H ^a   Ervin, M Gore ^a   Padbury, James F ^a   Rebello, Celso M ^a   Ikegami, Machiko ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiovascular; endocrine; hypoxia; kidney; Lung

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANGIOTENSIN; ARGIPRESSIN; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BETAMETHASONE; CATECHOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HYPOXIA; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC DIURESIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BETAMETHASONE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; KIDNEY; LUNG; NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SHEEP; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 0030248529     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-5576(96)00029-9     Document Type: Article

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