Increased allopregnanolone levels in the fetal sheep brain following umbilical cord occlusion

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 560, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 593-602

  Nguyen, Phuong N ^a   Yan, Edwin B ^a   Castillo Melendez, Margie ^a   Walker, David W ^a   Hirst, Jonathan J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; NEUROSTEROID; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 2;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; CELL PROTECTION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSATE; EXCITATION; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FETUS; FETUS HYPOXIA; GRAY MATTER; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; STRESS; UMBILICAL CORD; WHITE MATTER; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FETAL BRAIN; FETUS BLOOD; HEART RATE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PH; UMBILICAL CORD OCCLUSION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CHOLESTENONE 5 ALPHA-REDUCTASE; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CONSTRICTION; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; GASES; HEART RATE, FETAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOENZYMES; MICRODIALYSIS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PREGNANOLONE; PREGNENOLONE; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 7444250217     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.069336     Document Type: Article

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