Effect of cold on fetal heart rate and its variability

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 607-611

  Yu, Ze Yan ^a   Lumbers, Eugenie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cold stimulation; Fetus; Heart rate variability; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; PROPRANOLOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMORECEPTOR; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS TONE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLD; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; PREGNANCY; PROPRANOLOL; SHEEP; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0033921821     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2000.03305.x     Document Type: Article

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