A study of piglets born by spontaneous parturition under uncontrolled conditions: Could this be a naturalistic model for the study of intrapartum asphyxia?

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Trujillo Ortega, María E ^a   Mota Rojas, Daniel ^b   Olmos Hernández, Adriana ^a,b   Alonso Spilsbury, María ^b   González, Miguel ^a,b   Orozco, Héctor ^a,b   Ramírez Necoechea, Ramiro ^b   Nava Ocampo, Alejandro A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE SISTEMAS BIOLÓGICOS   (Mexico)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d PharmaReasons   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acidosis; Animal disease models; Asphyxia neonatorum; Oxygen deficiency

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOXIA; INTRAPARTUM ASPHYXIA; LABOR INDUCTION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PIGLET;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PARTURITION; SWINE;

EID: 34447505968     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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