Early gestation dexamethasone alters baroreflex and vascular responses in newborn lambs before hypertension

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Segar, Jeffrey L ^a,b   Roghair, Robert D ^a   Segar, Emily M ^a   Bailey, Melissa C ^a   Scholz, Thomas D ^a   Lamb, Fred S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Cardiovascular; Glucocorticoids; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN II; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOTHELIN; FORSKOLIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; TETRYLAMMONIUM BROMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BOLUS INJECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GANGLION BLOCK; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MYOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENYLEPHRINE; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 33745806160     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00677.2005     Document Type: Article

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