Maturation-related changes in the pattern of renal sympathetic nerve activity from fetal life to adulthood

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 85-93

  Booth, Lindsea C ^a   Bennet, Laura ^a   Guild, Sarah Jane ^a,b   Barrett, Carolyn J ^a   May, Clive N ^c   Gunn, Alistair J ^a   Malpas, Simon C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Telemetry Research Ltd   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; KIDNEY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PREMATURITY; SHEEP; SLEEP; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TELEMETRY; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 78751550542     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2010.055236     Document Type: Article

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