Disproportionate decrease in α- compared with β-adrenergic sensitivity in the dorsal hand vein in pregnancy favors vasodilation

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1116-1120

  Landau, Ruth ^a   Dishy, Victor ^a   Wood, Alastair J J ^a   Stein, C Michael ^a   Smiley, Richard M ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pregnancy; Receptors, adrenergic, alpha; Receptors, adrenergic, beta; Vasoconstriction; Veins

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ISOPRENALINE; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; VEIN DILATATION; VENOCONSTRICTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; ISOPROTERENOL; PHENYLEPHRINE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; REFERENCE VALUES; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION; VEINS;

EID: 0037183538     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000028334.32833.B0     Document Type: Article

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