A placebo-controlled, blinded comparison between betamethasone and dexamethasone to enhance lung maturation in the fetal house

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 130-134

  Christensen, H Dix ^a,b   Sienko, Anna E ^a   Rayburn, William F ^a   Gonzalez, Christina L ^a   Coleman, Frederick H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Fetus; Lung maturation; Mouse; Perinatal outcomes

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS; FETUS HEART; FETUS LIVER; FETUS LUNG; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; HEART WEIGHT; HORMONE ACTION; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LUNG; MICE; PLACEBOS;

EID: 0030814754     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-5576(97)00021-X     Document Type: Article

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