The effect of intrafetal infusion of metyrapone on arterial blood pressure and on the arterial blood pressure response to angiotensin II in the sheep fetus during late gestation

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 552, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 621-633

  Warnes, K E ^a   Coulter, C L ^a   Robinson, J S ^a   McMillen, I Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTODOXONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; ANGIOTENSIN II;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; STEROIDOGENESIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; EWE; HEART RATE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORTODOXONE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HORMONES; HYDROCORTISONE; INJECTIONS; METYRAPONE; PREGNANCY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SHEEP;

EID: 0142243113     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.049437     Document Type: Article

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