Effects of betamethasone on peripheral arterial development in term fetal rabbit

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 795-805

  Roubliova, Xenia I ^a   Lewi, Paul J ^a,b   Vaast, Pascal ^a,b   Jani, Jacques C ^a   Verbeken, Eric K ^c   Tibboel, Dick ^d   Deprest, Jan A ^a,b,e  

^a Center for Surgical Technologies Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e Centre for Surgical Technologies   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoids; Lung development; Rabbit model; Vascular morphometry

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; FORMALDEHYDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ACINAR CELL; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOE (MAMMAL); DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG WEIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE FIXATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LUNG; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PULMONARY ARTERY; RABBITS; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 49649097689     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20870     Document Type: Article

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