... the growth-restricted fetuses normal ability to redistribute blood flow away from the periphery [ 37 ]. Certainly, an MRI assessment of blood flow and DO 2 within the circulation of the growth-restricted fetus in response to SC will yield more clinically informative results. In this study, we utilized...

... or services advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Hypoxia Fetus Nucleated red blood...

... singleton (n = 9) or twin (n = 18) fetuses. All surgical procedures were performed between 115 and 130 days of gestation. The chronic catheterization of fetal and maternal femoral arteries and veins procedures were described previously [ 10 ]. Ewes were fasted for 24 h, and received 750 mg...

... in 47% of the cases. A significant correlation was found between the concentrations of AF EPO and meta -tyrosine/phenylalanine ratio (p < 0.001), nitro -tyrosine (p < 0.01) and 8-oxo-dG/2dG ratio (p < 0.001). Conclusions: We confirmed that fetuses of type 1 diabetes or insulin-treated...

..., Tas., and dDepartment of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia Key Words Fetus Ethanol Pulse wave velocity Blood pressure Abstract Background: Intrauterine exposure to alcohol may affect cardiovascular development, increasing risk of cardiovascular malformations. Intrauterine...

... Fetal Erythropoiesis? Key Words Angiotensin Angiotensinogen Erythropoiesis Erythropoietin Fetus Abstract Angiotensin affects the growth of many cell types and there have been suggestions that it could influence cells which respond to erythropoietin. During first trimester, human fetal haematopoietic...

... of the fetuses was 302 g (range 173-446 g). Abortion was induced with intra-amniotic instillation of prostaglandin imme­ diately following the fctoscopic procedure. Approval to perform fctoscopic blood sampling prior to the intraamniotic injection of prostaglandins for therapeutic abortion was approved...

... with other malformations and matched for gestational age (range 18–36 weeks). In mothers of NTD fetuses, serum folate (5.2 ng/ml), red blood cell folate (294 ng/ml) and the folate methylation rate (65%) were significantly lower than in controls (6.6 and 399 ng/ml, respectively, and 77%). However, the fetal...

... pression o f mRNA for c-fos in the cortex and pons medulla o f the newborn rats as com­ pared with term fetuses. These findings corro­ borate the idea o f a general neuronal activa­ tion at birth. C-fos has also been found to be activated in the central chemoreceptors by C 0 2 [11]. 147 Neuropeptides...

... on similar studies in the pregnant rat and rabbit and several studies in adult nonpregnant animals [3, 16, 24-26], Pregnant mice were weighed and then killed with i.p. pentobarbitone (100 mg/kg). Fetuses were delivered after hysterotomy, weighed and killed by cervical dislocation. Because of the small size...

... their binding capacity, we performed binding assays with insulin in 3 of the fetuses. About 0.02 pmol of [l25I]insulin were incubated with about 1 mg non-MgCL-treated membrane protein in the ab­ sence or presence of excess unlabelled insulin (500 ng). In 1 fetus, binding displacement was performed...

...J.C. Larroche; M.C. Aubry; F. Narcy Nonimmune hydrops fetalis has been described in a large number of pathological conditions, but brain aspect has been poorly explored. We report the neuropathological findings in a series of 38 fetuses and neonates with anasarca of various origin. Fourteen fetal...

... insulin ATP Glycogen Abstract The effect of moderate hyperglycemia on renal ATP produc­ tion and ATPase activity of rat fetus was investigated using the experimental procedure of maternal continuous infusion of glucose during the last 5 days of gestation. Glucose-infused mothers and their fetuses showed...

... the rat fetus representing a nonprecocious species. Material and Methods One study [10] was devoted to cerebral mono­ amine metabolism in growth-retarded and appro­ priately grown rat fetuses during normoxia and hypox­ ia. The pregnant rat dam underwent unilateral uterine artery ligation on day 18...

... in Growth-Retarded Fetuses Keywords Fetus Blood flow Doppler ultrasound Neurological development Intrauterine growth retardation Abstract Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is associated with abnormal neuro-developmental outcome. Aortic blood flow velocity waveforms have been shown to predict fetal...

... immunoreactivity were detected in all samples. Between the gestational age of 26 and 28 weeks, the levels (mean ± SE) were higher (p < 0.05) in male (21.6 ± 1.0 U/ml; n = 12) than in female (12.8 ± 0.2 U/ml; n = 12) fetuses. With ongoing gestation, the serum inhibin immunoreactivity decreased and was found...

... significant. Results Betamethasone-treated fetuses were runt­ ed (fetal weight 1.83 ± 0.03, n = 3 litters) when compared to the vehicle-treated con­ trols (2.41 ± 0.1, n = 3 litters, p < 0.01 ). How­ ever, mortality in this group of fetuses was not higher than the controls. A decrease in fetal weight...

.... Since there is evi­ dence that fever and infection alter the phar­ macokinetics of certain drugs [8], the data were analysed taking into account the pres­ ence or absence of infection as adjudged histo­ logically in those fetuses from whom the he­ patic tissues were derived. Materials and Methods Tissue...

...S. Deloof; A. Chatelain; A. Leprêtre The effects of rat corticotropin-releasing factor (rCRF, 1.25 pmol/50 μl/fetus), arginine vasopressin (AVP, 5 pmol/50 μl/fetus) and oxytocin (OT, 12.5 pmol/50 μl/fetus) alone or in association were investigated in 21-day-old rat fetuses injected intravenously...

... of immunoreactive inhibin in umbilical cord venous blood from 125 term fetuses at birth were found to be sig­ nificantly higher (p <0.01) in males (n = 62) than in females (n = 63). This sex difference was not apparent in a smaller subset of paired cord arterial and venous samples. Further, in this subset...