Prenatal tetrandrine treatment can reverse the abnormal conditions in the lung of newborn with congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 570-573

  Xu, Chang ^a   Liu, Wenying ^a   Wang, Yuanxiang ^a   Chen, Zhongxian ^a   Ji, Yi ^a   Luo, Miao ^a   Wang, Xuejun ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; TETRANDRINE;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SILICOSIS; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BENZYLISOQUINOLINES; FEMALE; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; STEPHANIA TETRANDRA;

EID: 60849137827     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.12.027     Document Type: Article

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