Ontogeny and control of the heart rate power spectrum in the last third of gestation in fetal sheep

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 80-88

  Koome, Miriam E ^a   Bennet, Laura ^a   Booth, Lindsea C ^a   Davidson, Joanne O ^a   Wassink, Guido ^a   Gunn, Alistair Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; POWER SPECTRUM; REDUCTION; SHEEP; SLEEP; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SLEEP; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84892433412     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2013.074567     Document Type: Article

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