Blood pressure and heart rate variability in early pregnancy in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 4 42-4, 1997, Pages

  Slangen, Brigitte F M ^a,b   Out, Iris C M ^a   Janssen, Ben J A ^a   Peeters, Louis L H ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Baroreflex; Mean arterial pressure variability; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0030669488     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.273.4.h1794     Document Type: Article

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