Effects of multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids on regional brain and somatic tissue water content in ovine fetuses

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 166-174

  Stonestreet, Barbara S ^a   Watkins, Shannon ^a   Petersson, Katherine H ^a   Sadowska, Grazyna B ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Dexamethasone; Fetus; Multiple course steroids; Ovine; Sheep; Water content

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; DEXAMETHASONE; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN WEIGHT; CATHETERIZATION; CATTLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY; LIVER; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SKIN; TISSUE WATER; WATER CONTENT; WET DEPOSITION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WATER; BRAIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HEMATOCRIT; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INSULIN; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN; PLACEBOS; POTASSIUM; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SODIUM;

EID: 1642487305     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsgi.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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