Plasma catecholamine and Met-Enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7 responses to hypoxaemia after adrenalectomy in the fetal sheep

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 108-114

  Simonetta, Giuseppe ^a   Young, I Ross ^b   McMillen, I Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Enkephalins; Fetus; Hypoxaemia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; ENKEPHALIN; METENKEPHALIN; METENKEPHALIN[6 ARGININE 7 PHENYLALANINE]; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; HYPOXEMIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

EID: 0030581521     PISSN: 01651838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1838(96)00026-4     Document Type: Article

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