Pregnancy and ephedrine increase the release of nitric oxide in ovine uterine arteries

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 288-293

  Li, Ping ^a   Tong, Chuanyao ^a   Eisenach, James C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHEDRINE; METARAMINOL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HYPOTENSION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; UTERINE ARTERY;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; ARTERIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPHEDRINE; FEMALE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEMOGLOBINS; METARAMINOL; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHEEP; UTERUS; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0030021893     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199602000-00012     Document Type: Article

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