The distribution of FOS-immunoreactive neurons in the brainstem, midbrain and diencephalon of fetal sheep in response to acute hypoxia in mid and late gestation

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-26

  Nitsos, Ilias ^a   Walker, David W ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fetus; FOS; Hypoxia; Motor activity; Respiration

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; FETUS BREATHING; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RESPIRATION CENTER; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN STEM; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RESPIRATION; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0033548861     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(99)00010-3     Document Type: Article

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