The effects of betamethasone on allopregnanolone concentrations and brain development in preterm fetal sheep

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 342-348

  Yawno, Tamara ^a   Mortale, Monique ^a   Sutherland, Amy E ^a   Jenkin, Graham ^a   Wallace, Euan M ^a   Walker, David W ^a   Miller, Suzanne L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alfaxalone; Allopregnanolone; Betamethasone; Brain injury; Fetal sheep; Neurosteroids

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; ALFAXALONE; BETAMETHASONE; CASPASE 3; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ELTANOLONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PREGNANEDIONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTAGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; DOMESTIC SHEEP; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; INDWELLING CATHETER; METABOLISM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BRAIN; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANEDIONES; PREGNANOLONE; PROGESTERONE; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 84903131062     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2014.05.031     Document Type: Article

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