Human placental syncytiotrophoblast microvillous membranes impair maternal vascular endothelial function

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 235-240

  Cockell, Anna P ^a   Learmont, Jonathan G ^a   Smárason, Alexander K ^b   Redman, Christopher W G ^b   Sargent, Ian L ^b   Poston, Lucilla ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROVILLUS; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ARTERIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROVILLI; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TROPHOBLASTS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0031057140     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1997.tb11052.x     Document Type: Article

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