Programming Effects of Short Prenatal Exposure to Dexamethasone in Sheep

Recent studies have linked fetal exposure to a suboptimal intrauterine environment with adult hypertension. The aims of the present study were to see whether prenatal dexamethasone administered intravenously to the ewe between 26 to 28 days of gestation (1) resulted in high blood pressure in male an...

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Main Author: Abouantoun, Tamara (author)
Other Authors: Dodic, Miodrag (author), O'Connor, Anne (author), Wintour, E. Marelyn (author), Moritz, Karen M. (author)
Format: article
Published: 2002
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/4428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/01.HYP.0000036455.62159.7E
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/40/5/729.full
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