Pregnancy-associated increase in rat systemic arteries endothelial nitric oxide production diminishes vasoconstrictor but does not enhance vasodilator responses

Life Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 26, 2002, Pages 3131-3142

  Ballejo, Gustavo ^a   Barbosa, Tiago A ^a   Coelho, Eduardo B ^a   Antoniali, Cristina ^a   Salgado, Maria Cristina O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Nitric oxide; Phenylephrine; Pregnancy; Vasodilators

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE; ARGININE; BRADYKININ; CALCIMYCIN; CAPSAICIN; CITRULLINE; FORSKOLIN; ISOPRENALINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; RILMAKALIM; TRITIUM; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HOMOGENATE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; RAT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THORACIC AORTA; UTERINE ARTERY; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037123724     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3205(02)01576-X     Document Type: Article

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