Effect of antenatal glucocorticoids on sympathetic nerve activity at birth in preterm sheep

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 1 43-1, 1998, Pages

  Segar, Jeffrey L ^a,c   Lumbers, Eugenie R ^b   Nuyt, Anne Monique ^a   Smith, Oliva J ^a   Robillard, Jean E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Dexamethasone; Fetus; Heart rate; Newborn; Renal sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS; HEART RATE; KIDNEY INNERVATION; LAMB; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 0031915717     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.1.r160     Document Type: Article

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