Effects into adulthood of single or repeated antenatal corticosteroids in sheep

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 146-152

  Moss, Timothy J M ^a,b   Doherty, Dorota A ^a,b   Nitsos, Ilias ^a,b   Sloboda, Deborah M ^a,b   Harding, Richard ^c   Newnham, John P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Women and Infants Research Foundation   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Betamethasone; Neurodevelopment; Programming

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; FETUS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART RATE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SHEEP;

EID: 12844276164     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2004.06.065     Document Type: Article

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