The role of the neural sympathetic and parasympathetic systems in diurnal and sleep state-related cardiovascular rhythms in the late-gestation ovine fetus

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Jensen, Ellen C ^a   Bennet, Laura ^a   Guild, Sarah Jane ^a   Booth, Lindsea C ^a   Stewart, Joanna ^a   Gunn, Alistair J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Diurnal rhythm; Fetal heart rate variability; Fetal sheep; Sleep state

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CHEMICAL SYMPATHECTOMY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; VAGOTOMY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL HEART; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HEMODYNAMICS; OXIDOPAMINE; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHEEP; SLEEP; SYMPATHECTOMY, CHEMICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYMPATHOLYTICS; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 70349619634     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90979.2008     Document Type: Article

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