The vulnerability of the fetal sheep brain to hypoxemia at mid-gestation

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 103-118

  Rees, S ^a   Stringer, M ^a   Just, Y ^a   Hooper, S B ^b   Harding, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain; Cerebellum; Cerebral cortex; Development; Fetal; Hippocampus; Hypoxemia; Structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN WEIGHT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOXEMIA; LEUKOMALACIA; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SHEEP; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0030700512     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(97)81787-7     Document Type: Article

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