Repeated antenatal corticosteroid treatments adversely affect neural transmission time and auditory thresholds in laboratory rats

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 196-205

  Church, M W ^a   Adams, B R ^a   Anumba, J I ^a   Jackson, D A ^a   Kruger, M L ^a   Jen, K L C ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenatal corticosteroids (AC); Auditory brainstem response (ABR); Barker hypothesis; Betamethasone; Hearing loss; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEARING LOSS; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY DISEASES, CENTRAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BETAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84856215554     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: 18729738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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