Sympathetic neural activation does not mediate heart rate variability during repeated brief umbilical cord occlusions in near-term fetal sheep

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 594, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1265-1277

  Lear, Christopher A ^a   Galinsky, Robert ^a   Wassink, Guido ^a   Mitchell, Clinton J ^a   Davidson, Joanne O ^a   Westgate, Jennifer A ^a   Bennet, Laura ^a   Gunn, Alistair J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE; OXYGEN;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; LABOR STAGE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; ANIMAL; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS HEART; HEART RATE; INNERVATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETAL HYPOXIA; HEART RATE; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 84959272556     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP270125     Document Type: Article

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