Autonomous adrenocorticotropin reaction to stress stimuli in human fetus

Early Human Development

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 197-201

  Kosinska Kaczynska, Katarzyna ^a   Bartkowiak, Robert ^a   Kaczynski, Bartosz ^a   Szymusik, Iwona ^a   Wielgos, Miroslaw ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropin; Cortisol; Fetus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEPATIC VEIN; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; LIVER BIOPSY; PARITY; PREGNANT WOMAN; STRESS; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, INTRAUTERINE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FETUS; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MOTHERS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PREGNANCY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84858334121     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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