Chronic fetal placental embolization and hypoxemia cause hypertension and myocardial hypertrophy in fetal sheep

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 1 41-1, 1997, Pages

  Murotsuki, Jun ^b   Challis, John R G ^b   Han, Victor K M ^b   Fraher, Laurence J ^b   Gagnon, Robert ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

cardiovascular adaptation; catecholamine; intrauterine growth restriction; long term fetal hypoxemia; placental insufficiency

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART WEIGHT; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

EID: 0031034367     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.272.1.r201     Document Type: Article

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