Male disadvantage? Fetal sex and cardiovascular responses to asphyxia in preterm fetal sheep

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Bennet, Laura ^a   Booth, Lindsea C ^a   Ahmed Nasef, Noha ^a   Dean, Justin M ^a   Davidson, Joanne ^a   Quaedackers, Josine S ^a   Gunn, Alistair J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular chemoreflex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY FLOW; FETUS; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART RATE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASPHYXIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FETAL WEIGHT; HEART RATE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; MALE; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 34548381193     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00342.2007     Document Type: Article

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