Doppler ultrasonography for the noninvasive measurement of uterine artery volume blood flow through gestation in the pregnant sheep

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-19

  Abi Nader, Khalil N ^a   Mehta, Vedanta ^a   Wigley, Victoria ^a   Filippi, Elisa ^a   Tezcan, Berrin ^a   Boyd, Michael ^b   Peebles, Donald M ^a   David, Anna L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agreement; Blood volume flow; Correlation.; Doppler; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; GENTAMICIN; GENTAMICIN INJECTABLE; PENICILLIN G POTASSIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VETERGESIC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEEP; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERINE ARTERY;

EID: 77449138825     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719109344772     Document Type: Article

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