Betamethasone effects on fetal sheep cerebral blood flow are not dependent on maturation of cerebrovascular system and pituitary-adrenal axis

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 564, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 575-588

  Löhle, Matthias ^a   Müller, Thomas ^a   Wicher, Carola ^a   Roedel, Marcus ^a   Schubert, Harald ^a   Witte, Otto W ^a   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^b   Schwab, Matthias ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FETUS; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FLUORESCENCE; GESTATION PERIOD; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION; BRAIN VASCULAR RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; SUBCORTEX;

ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 17844378502     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.077537     Document Type: Article

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