Fetal stress. Focus on "Effects of acute acidemia on the fetal cardiovascular defense to acute hypoxemia" by Thakor and Giussani

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Wood, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

ACIDEMIA; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; BLEEDING; BLOOD GAS; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHEMOSENSITIZATION; EDITORIAL; FETUS ACID BASE BALANCE; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS HYPOXIA; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; PH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

ACIDOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATECHOLAMINES; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN; REFLEX; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58249142541     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90861.2008     Document Type: Editorial

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