Pregnant women become insensitive to cold stress

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Kammerer, Martin ^a   Adams, Diana ^b   von Castelberg, Brida ^c   Glover, Vivette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÄTSSPITAL ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ARTICLE; COLD SENSITIVITY; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0142192954     PISSN: 14712393     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-2-8     Document Type: Article

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