Effect of maternal nutrient restriction in early gestation on responses of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to acute isocapnic hypoxaemia in late gestation fetal sheep

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-96

  Hawkins, Paul ^a   Steyn, Clare ^a   McGarrigle, Hugh H G ^a   Saito, Tsukuru ^a   Ozaki, Takashi ^a   Stratford, Lori L ^a   Noakes, David E ^b   Hanson, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS WEIGHT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOXEMIA; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; ORGAN WEIGHT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 0034003637     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-445X.2000.01914.x     Document Type: Article

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