Haemodynamic characteristics of hypertension induced by prenatal cortisol exposure in sheep
- Moritz, Karen M.
- Dodic, Miodrag
- Jefferies, Andrew J.
- Wintour, E. Marelyn
- DeMatteo, Robert
- Singh, Reetu R.
- Evans, Roger G.
Publication date
October 2009
DOI Publisher
Wiley ISSN
0305-1870 Citation count (estimate)
8Abstract
P>1. Administration of glucocorticoids to ewes early in pregnancy results in offspring with hypertension in adulthood. The hypertension in female offspring exposed to dexamethasone is associated with increased cardiac output, but whether this is also true in cortisol-exposed offspring is unknown
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