Differential effects of clinical doses of antenatal betamethasone on nephron endowment and glomerular filtration rate in adult sheep

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 186-195

  Zhang, Jie ^a   Massmann, G Angela ^a   Rose, James C ^a   Figueroa, Jorge P ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenatal steroids; Betamethasone; Clinical doses; Glomerular filtration rate; Hypertension; Nephron endowment; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHEEP;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPERTENSION, RENAL; INULIN; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; NEPHRONS; P-AMINOHIPPURIC ACID; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SHEEP;

EID: 76249090997     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719109351098     Document Type: Article

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