Identification of brainstem neurons responding to hypoxia in fetal and newborn sheep

Brain Research

Volumn 748, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 107-121

  Breen, Sibilah ^a   Rees, Sandra ^a   Walker, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

breathing movement; fetus; Fos immunohistochemistry; hypoxia; parabrachial neuron

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; BRAIN STEM; CAROTID SINUS; DENERVATION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031044339     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01273-5     Document Type: Article

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