Maternal and intra-amniotic corticosteroid effects on lung morphometry in preterm lambs

Pediatric Research

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-36

  Polglase, Graeme R ^a   Nitsos, Ilias ^a   Jobe, Alan H ^b   Newnham, John P ^a   Moss, Timothy J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEPO RALOVERA; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS; LAMB; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG FUNCTION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; BUDESONIDE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; FEMALE; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LUNG; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 34250807135     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e3180686433     Document Type: Article

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