Role of nitric oxide in maternal hemodynamics and hormonal changes in pregnant rats

Biological Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 243-250

  Salas, Sofia P ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Fetal growth; Maternal hemodynamics; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Pre eclampsia like syndrome; Rat pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; HORMONE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; HEMODYNAMICS; KIDNEY INJURY; LITTER SIZE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PROTEINURIA; RAT; SECOND MESSENGER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINARY EXCRETION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HORMONES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RATS; SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031717846     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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