Prenatal nicotine-exposure alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors: Implications for sudden infant death syndrome

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1579-1590

  Duncan, Jhodie R ^a   Garland, Marianne ^b   Myers, Michael M ^b   Fifer, William P ^b   Yang, May ^c   Kinney, Hannah C ^a   Stark, Raymond I ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiorespiratory function; Nicotinic receptor; Parasympathetic activity; Raph obscurus; Serotonin receptor

Indexed keywords

COTININE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BREATHING; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NICOTINE; PAPIO; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 72749087274     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.91629.2008     Document Type: Article

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