Antenatal dexamethasone administration impairs normal postnatal lung growth in rats

Pediatric Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 777-781

  Okajima, Satoru ^a,d   Matsuda, Tadashi ^a   Cho, Kazutoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshinori ^b   Kobayashi, Yoshiyasu ^c   Fujimoto, Seiichiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Hokkaido Social Work Ass Obihiro Hosp   (Japan)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034983376     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-200106000-00011     Document Type: Article

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