Human fetal and maternal corticotrophin releasing hormone responses to acute stress

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Gitau, R ^a   Fisk, N M ^b   Glover, V ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; FETUS DISTRESS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEPATIC VEIN; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; MATERNAL BLOOD; PLACENTA; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; UMBILICAL CORD; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 1642492975     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 13592998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.89.1.f29     Document Type: Article

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