Chronic hypoxia opposes pregnancy-induced increase in uterine artery vasodilator response to flow

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 284, Issue 3 53-3, 2003, Pages

  Mateev, Stephanie ^a   Sillau, A Hugo ^a   Mouser, Rhonda ^a   McCullough, Robert E ^a   White, Margueritte M ^a   Young, David A ^a   Moore, Lorna G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Endothelium derived hyperpolarizing factor; Nitric oxide; Peroxynitrites; Preeclampsia

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED HYPERPOLARIZING FACTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PEROXYNITRITE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GROWTH INHIBITION; GUINEA PIG; HYPOXIA; ISOLATED ARTERY; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0037372176     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00701.2002     Document Type: Article

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