fetal lambs
Ventilation and oxygenation induce endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene expression in the lungs of fetal lambs
... of fetal lambs either by maternal hyperbaric oxygen exposure or by ventilation of the fetus with air or oxygen (8–10, 16, ...in fetal rat lungs as they near term, which decreases 1 wk after birth ...
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Failure of postnatal adaptation of the pulmonary circulation after chronic intrauterine pulmonary hypertension in fetal lambs
... late-gestation fetal lambs by maintaining partial compression of the ductus arteriosus with an inflatable vascular ...the fetal pulmonary vascular response to small increases in PO2 (P less than ...
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Chronic Hyperglycemia Reduces Surface Active Material Flux in Tracheal Fluid of Fetal Lambs
... alters fetal lung maturation by continuous infusion of glucose (14±2 mg/kg per min, mean±SE) from 112 up to 145 d gestation into six chronically catheterized fetal lambs from which tracheal fluid ...
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Insulin like growth factor 1 is a potent neuronal rescue agent after hypoxic ischemic injury in fetal lambs
... This study was designed to determine the potential of IGF-1 as a neuronal rescue agent after cerebral ischemia. Unanesthetized late gestation fetal sheep were subjected to 30-min cerebral ischemia by inflation of ...
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Dramatic neuronal rescue with prolonged selective head cooling after ischemia in fetal lambs
... Recordings. Fetal arterial blood pressure, corrected for amniotic fluid pressure (Novatrans II, MX860; Medex ...Inc.), fetal extradural temperature, esophageal temperature, and maternal temperature, as well ...
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Epidermal growth factor acts as a corticotropin releasing factor in chronically catheterized fetal lambs
... purified mouse EGF or synthetic ovine corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) to chronically catheterized fetal sheep. Both CRF and EGF were associated with increases in plasma immunoreactive ACTH concentrations. ...
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Does Viagra protect fetal lambs against maternal pregnancy toxaemia?
... heavier lambs, with a later date of birth and a greater proportion of live births, without apparent effects on placental weight or ...more lambs to ...and fetal umbilical venous serum, as well as a ...
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Prostacyclin synthesis in ovine pulmonary artery is developmentally regulated by changes in cyclooxygenase 1 gene expression
... Prostacyclin (PGI2) is a key mediator of pulmonary vasomotor tone during late gestation and in the newborn, and its production in whole lung increases during that period. We investigated the developmental regulation of ...
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Prolonged endothelin A receptor blockade attenuates chronic pulmonary hypertension in the ovine fetus
... in fetal lambs causes marked elevation of intrauterine pul- monary artery pressure, right ventricular hypertrophy, hyper- tensive lung structural changes, as well as abnormal pulmonary vasoreactivity and ...
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Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) activation during ruminant mammary development and function : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Animal Science at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... 140 fetal lambs carried by maintenance fed dams and dairy cows administered exogenous GH, had increased abundance of total and activated mTOR and mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway ...
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Adenoviral mediated gene transfer to fetal pulmonary epithelia in vitro and in vivo
... the fetal pulmonary epithelium in vitro and in ...cultured fetal lung tissues from rodents and humans diffusely expressed the lacZ transgene 3 d after viral ...in fetal mice and ...the fetal ...
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Abraham Morris Rudolph: An Appreciation
... In 1966, Dr Rudolph, Dr Heymann, and I, together with some of the fellows, moved to the University of California, San Francisco, where we became mem- bers of the Department of Pediatrics, under the chair- manship of Dr ...
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The role of the environment in transmission of Dichelobacter nodosus between ewes and their lambs
... of lambs were on their mother’s feet, indicating that the strains detected on lambs’ feet originated from sources additional to their mothers’ feet, most likely contaminated bedding in the communal ...
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Productivity and Grazing Behavior of Ewes with Single or Twin Lambs Raised in Mixed Italian Ryegrass/White Clover Pasture in Southern Brazil
... the lambs were grazing near to or far from their ...and lambs, and net output (ewes and lambs) were ...twin lambs presented a mean lower body condition ...twin lambs produced ...+ ...
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Effects of Age and Nutritional Status at Mating on the Reproductive and Productive Traits in Suffolk Sheep Kept under Permanent Outdoor Management System
... This study examined the variability of reproductive and productive traits in Suffolk sheep (a commercial flock, n = 316 ewes) with regard to the dams’ age or the nutritional status of sheep at mating under a year-round ...
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The Effect of Two Different Oxytetracycline Treatments in Experimental Ehrlichia phagocytophilaInfected Lambs
... 8 lambs had a positive antibody titre, while 2 months later only 5 of these lambs had a posi- tive ...positive lambs and the control lambs had a mean anti- body titre of ...seropositive ...
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Comparison of Passively Transferred Antibodies in Bighorn and Domestic Lambs Reveals One Factor in Differential Susceptibility of These Species to Mannheimia haemolytica-Induced Pneumonia
... domestic lambs. Our ELISA results clearly showed that the BH lambs had lower serum titers of Abs against surface antigens of ...BH lambs were even lower than the serum titers of Ab against ...
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Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2005
... and fetal death report in- clude important modifications to wording and/or sources for several key items that are traditionally pre- sented in this article: educational attainment, maternal tobacco use, and ...
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Determination of Some Blood Parameters and Macro Elements in Coccidiosis Affected Akkaraman Kangal Lambs
... Kangal lambs. Total of 48 Akkaraman Kangal lambs aged between 3 to 8 weeks were used in study in which 24 of them were clinically healthy and other 24 were coccidiosis ...affected lambs during ...
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Uptake of Colostral Immunoglobulins by the Compromised Newborn Farm Animal
... whether fetal glucocorti- coid levels were ...and lambs show severely depressed immuno- globulin G uptake into plasma after metyrapone treatment (inhibition of cortisol synthesis) (Patt & Eberhart 1976, ...
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