Corticotrophin-releasing hormone and fetal responses in human pregnancy

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 897, Issue , 1999, Pages 66-75

  Sandman, Curt A ^a,b   Wadhwa, Pathik ^c   Glynn, Laura ^a   Chicz Demet, Aleksandra ^a   Porto, Manuel ^a   Garite, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Box 5A ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS HEART RATE; GENDER; GESTATION PERIOD; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 0033373111     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07879.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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