Ovine surgical model of uterine space restriction: Interactive effects of uterine anomalies and multifetal gestations on fetal and placental growth

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 799-806

  Meyer, Katie M ^a,b,c   Koch, Jill M ^c   Ramadoss, Jayanth ^c   Kling, Pamela J ^a   Magness, Ronald R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MERITER HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotyledon; Fetal development; IUGR; Placenta; Placentome; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATION PERIOD; HEART WEIGHT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG WEIGHT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPLEEN WEIGHT; TWIN PREGNANCY; UTERUS MALFORMATION;

ANIMALS; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; LIGATION; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; UTERUS;

OVIS;

EID: 77958594724     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085381     Document Type: Article

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