Direction of blood flow and changes in resistance of major arteries supplying the ovary of the pregnant rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-48

  Massa, H M ^b   Bruce, N W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; FETUS GROWTH; GUINEA PIG; HAMSTER; HORSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY BLOOD FLOW; OVARY FUNCTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; SHEEP; SWINE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UTERUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CRICETINAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030907015     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.43     Document Type: Article

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