Betamethasone effects on ovine uterine and umbilical placental perfusion at the dose used to enhance fetal lung maturation

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 572-579

  Schwab, Matthias ^a,b   Coksaygan, Turhan ^a   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a,c  

^a Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetus; Glucocorticoids; Placental perfusion; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; HEART OUTPUT; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; UTERUS; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; FEMALE; FETUS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART RATE, FETAL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; LUNG; MICROCIRCULATION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHEEP; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 31844436243     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.08.031     Document Type: Article

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