Betamethasone for lung maturation: testing dose and formulation in fetal sheep

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 523.e1-523.e6

  Jobe, Alan H ^a   Moss, Timothy J M ^b   Nitsos, Ilias ^b   Ikegami, Machiko ^a   Kallapur, Suhas G ^a   Newnham, John P ^b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

corticosteroid; fetal sheep; lung; preterm

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE ACETATE; BETAMETHASONE ACETATE PLUS BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; CELESTONE CHRONODOSE; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; FETUS; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

EID: 35548973406     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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