Prenatal treatment of intrauterine growth restriction: Lessons from the sheep model

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 182-192

  Harding, Jane E ^a   Bloomfield, Frank H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fetal growth; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factors; Nutrition; Placenta; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS EXTRACT; INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT DISEASE; AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL MODEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENTERIC FEEDING; FETUS GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDER; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE RESPONSE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRENATAL CARE; REVIEW; SHEEP; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STROKE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 13444252785     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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