Acceleration and deceleration capacity of fetal heart rate in an in-vivo sheep model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Rivolta, Massimo W ^a   Stampalija, Tamara ^b   Casati, Daniela ^c   Richardson, Bryan S ^d   Ross, Michael G ^e   Frasch, Martin G ^f,g   Bauer, Axel ^h,i   Ferrazzi, Enrico ^c   Sassi, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^c V BUZZI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^h LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACID BASE BALANCE; ACIDEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; RR INTERVAL; SHEEP; UMBILICAL CORD; ACIDOSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; FETUS HEART; FETUS HYPOXIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ACCELERATION; ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ACIDOSIS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DECELERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETAL HYPOXIA; HEART RATE, FETAL; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 84928790614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104193     Document Type: Article

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