Effects of low dose dexamethasone treatment on basal cardiovascular and endocrine function in fetal sheep during late gestation

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 545, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 649-660

  Fletcher, Andrew J W ^a   McGarrigle, Hugh H G ^b   Edwards, C Mark B ^c   Fowden, Abigail L ^a   Giussani, Dino A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMPICILLIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARGIPRESSIN; DEXAMETHASONE; EQUIPAZOLNE PASTE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HALOTHANE; HEPARIN; INTRAVAL SODIUM; NEUROPEPTIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; PENTOBARBITAL; PENTOJECT; PHENYLBUTAZONE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIOPENTAL; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHRONOTROPISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MECHANICAL PROBE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; EWE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 12244286110     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2001.015693     Document Type: Article

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