Systemic Hemodynamics and Regional Blood Flow During Chronic Nitric Oxide Synthesis Inhibition in Pregnant Rats

Hypertension

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 315-320

  Kassab, Salah ^a   Miller, M Todd ^a   Hester, Robert ^a   Novak, Jacqueline ^a   Granger, Joey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; MICROSPHERE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREEDING; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; UTERUS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RENAL CIRCULATION; UTERUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0031601854     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.31.1.315     Document Type: Article

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