Maternal hemodynamics and uteroplacental blood flow throughout gestation in conscious rats

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 613-625

  Dowell, Russell T ^a   Kauer, Curtis D ^a  

^a LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiac output; Fetal growth; Microspheres; Peripheral resistance; Placenta

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; RAT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UTERUS;

EID: 0031474717     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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