Vasoactive responses of veins isolated from the human placental chorionic plate

Placenta

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 790-796

  Wareing, Mark ^a   Greenwood, S L ^a   Taggart, M J ^a   Baker, P N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXY 11ALPHA,9ALPHA EPOXYMETHANOPROSTA 5,13 DIENOIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; THROMBOXANE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYOGRAPHY; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DILATATION; VENOCONSTRICTION; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 0141503351     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-4004(03)00108-5     Document Type: Article

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