The role of the sympathetic nervous system in postasphyxial intestinal hypoperfusion in the pre-term sheep fetus

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 557, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1033-1044

  Quaedackers, Josine S ^a,b   Roelfsema, Vincent ^a,b   Heineman, Erik ^b   Gunn, Alistair J ^a,b   Bennet, Laura ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENTOLAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HYPOXIA; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; INTESTINE PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SHEEP; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SYMPATHETIC TONE; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GUT BLOOD FLOW;

ANIMALS; ASPHYXIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART RATE, FETAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINES; ISCHEMIA; LACTIC ACID; PERFUSION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEIZURES; SHEEP; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; UMBILICAL CORD; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 3242700532     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.062554     Document Type: Article

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