Preventing preterm birth: The past limitations and new potential of animal models

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 3, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 407-414

  Ratajczak, Christine K ^a   Fay, Justin C ^b   Muglia, Louis J ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUNCTURE; RETINOPATHY; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEROID THERAPY; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIRTH; FEMALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954859063     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.001701     Document Type: Article

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