Decreasing resistance in the maternal uterine and peripheral arterial system is apparently unrelated to plasma and urinary levels of nitrite/nitrate and cyclic-guanosinmonophosohate during the course of normal pregnancies

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 281-286

  Schiessil, Barbara ^a   Strasburger, Christian J ^b   Bidlingmaier, Martin ^b   Spannagl, Michael ^a   Ugele, Bernhard ^a   Kainer, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Doppler sonography; Nitric oxide; Peripheral resistance; Pregnancy; Uterine resistance

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ADULT; ARTERY; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; PULSE RATE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

5'-GUANYLIC ACID; ADULT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NITRATES; NITRITES; PARTURITION; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0042737448     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2003.039     Document Type: Article

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