Cardiovascular and endocrine responses to acute hypoxaemia during and following dexamethasone infusion in the ovine fetus

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 549, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 271-287

  Fletcher, Andrew J W ^a   Gardner, David S ^a   Edwards, C Mark B ^b   Fowden, Abigail L ^a   Giussani, Dino A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HALOTHANE; HEPARIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VASOPRESSIN; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FETUS; FETUS HYPOXIA; FLOW RATE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SHEEP; TIME; VASOCONSTRICTION; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMORAL ARTERY FLOW; FETUS HEART RATE; HORMONE RELEASE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANOXEMIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATECHOLAMINES; CHEMORECEPTORS; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETUS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART RATE, FETAL; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHEEP; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0038363332     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.036418     Document Type: Article

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