Paradoxical rise in brainstem PO2 following umbilical cord occlusion in full-term rat fetuses

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 330, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-170

  Sakata, Yoshiyuki ^a   Fujioka, Takashi ^a   Inouye, Sachie ^a   Endoh, Hisashi ^a   Nakamura, Shoji ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asphyxia; Delivery; Fetus; Hypoxia; Ischemia; Oxygen

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HYPOXIA; MATERNAL BLOOD; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASPHYXIA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 0037144231     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00772-3     Document Type: Article

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