Contribution of the fetal baroreceptor reflex to the low frequency component of fetal heart rate fluctuations

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 156-161

  Suzuki, Hisaya ^a   Sugawara, Junichi ^a   Kimura, Yoshitaka ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^a   Okamura, Kunihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baroreceptor reflex; Fetus; Heart rate fluctuation

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 0043245175     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071530     Document Type: Article

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