Role of adrenergic receptor subtypes in the control of human placental blood vessels

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 166-171

  Resch, Béla Endre ^a   Ducza, Eszter ^a   Gáspár, Róbert ^a   Falkay, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Adrenergic receptor subtypes; Electric field stimulation; Human placental blood vessels; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

2 [[2 (2,6 DIMETHOXYPHENOXY)ETHYL]AMINOMETHYL] 1,4 BENZODIOXAN; 8 [2 [4 (2 METHOXYPHENYL) 1 PIPERAZINYL]ETHYL] 8 AZASPIRO[4.5]DECANE 7,9 DIONE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FENOTEROL; MESSENGER RNA; RITODRINE; TERBUTALINE; URAPIDIL; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOCOLYSIS; VENOCONSTRICTION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ARTERIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VASOCONSTRICTION; VEINS;

EID: 0041854339     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10337     Document Type: Article

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