Elevated plasma corticotrophin release factor levels and in utero meconium passage

Pediatric Research

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 176-179

  Lakshmanan, Jayaraman ^a   Ahanya, Sureshbabu N ^a   Rehan, Virender ^a   Oyachi, Noboru ^a   Ross, Michael G ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BILIRUBIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOXIA; MECONIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; MECONIUM; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS; UTERUS;

EID: 33846412597     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/pdr.0b013e31802d8a81     Document Type: Article

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