Long-term hypoxia alters endocrine and physiologic responses to umbilical cord occlusion in the ovine fetus

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 131-140

  Imamura, Toshiko ^a   Umezaki, Hikaru ^a   Kaushal, Kanchan M ^a   Ducsay, Charles A ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Chronic hypoxemia; Cord occlusion; Cortisol; Fetus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; HYPOXIA; INFUSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSION; OXYGEN TENSION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRACHEA; UMBILICAL CORD;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CARBON DIOXIDE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL HYPOXIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 1642568838     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsgi.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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