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. 2021 Apr 1;320(4):R469-R470.
doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00024.2021.

Reply to the "Letter to the Editor: measurement of fetal parasympathetic activity during labor: a new pathway for evaluation of fetal well-being?"

Christopher A Lear  1 , Jenny A Westgate  1 , Michi Kasai  1   2 , Michael J Beacom  1 , Yoshiki Maeda  1   3 , Shoichi Magawa  1   3 , Etsuko Miyagi  2 , Tomoaki Ikeda  3 , Laura Bennet  1 , Alistair J Gunn  1
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Reply to the "Letter to the Editor: measurement of fetal parasympathetic activity during labor: a new pathway for evaluation of fetal well-being?"

Christopher A Lear et al. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. .
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Keywords: Fetal heart rate monitoring; autonomic activity; fetal sheep; fetus; heart rate variability; labor; parasympathetic nervous system.

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Conflict of interest statement

This work was supported by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, Grant 17/601.

No conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, are declared by the authors.

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